Attributability of unlawful conduct of subsidiaries to their parent companies: The General Court of the European Union reaffirms the need for the Commission to establish decisive influence exercised by the parent company over the commercial conduct of a joint company and partially annuls the Commission’s decision of 1 October 2008 in the slack wax market case (Exxon/Sasol/RWE)

*This article is an automatic translation of the original article, provided here for your convenience. Read the original article. Court of First Instance, 11 July 2014, Cases T-540/08 http://curia.europa.eu/juris/docume... (Exxon), T-541/08 http://curia.europa.eu/juris/docume... (Sasol) and T-543/08 http://curia.europa.eu/juris/docume... (RWE) On 11 July 2014, the General Court of the European Union delivered three new judgements in the candle wax cartel case. These judgments concern respectively the Exxon group in Case T-540/08 http://curia.europa.eu/juris/docume...the Sasol group in Case T-541/08 http://curia.europa.eu/juris/docume... and the RWE group in Case T-543/08 http://curia.europa.eu/juris/docume.... It will be recalled that in a decision of October 1, 2008Following Shell's