Calcium carbide and magnesium based reagents cartel: Advocate General Paolo Mengozzi invites the Court of Justice of the European Union to confirm that the violation by a subsidiary of instructions given by its parent company is insufficient in itself for the rebuttal of the presumption of decisive influence, whereas Advocate General Nils Wahl suggests that companies alleged to be involved do not have a right to be heard in camera (Evonik Degussa/AlzChem/SKW Stahl-Metallurgie)

*This article is an automatic translation of the original article, provided here for your convenience. Read the original article. CJEU, Advocate General, 3 September 2015, Cases C-155/14 (Evonik Degussa /AlzChem) and C-154/14 (SKW Stahl-Metallurgy) On 3 September 2015, Advocates General Paolo Mengozzi and Nils Wahl delivered their respective opinions on one of the components of the calcium carbide and magnesium carbide reagent cartel. It is recalled that on July 22, 2009, the Commission http://ec.europa.eu/competition/ant... imposed a fine of more than €61 million on suppliers of calcium carbide and magnesium based reagents to the steel and gas industries for participating, from 7 April 2004 to 16 January 2007, in a single and continuous infringement involving market sharing, fixing