Principle that penalties must fit the offence: The Tribunal of the European Union lowers considerably the fine imposed on one of the participants to the pre-stressing steel cartel (Voestalpine et al.)

*This article is an automatic translation of the original article, provided here for your convenience. Read the original article. Court of First Instance, 15 July 2015, Case T-418/10 (Voestalpine), Joined Cases T-389/10 and T-419/10 (Siderurgica Latina Martin), Cases T-398/10 (Fapricela), T-422/10 (Trafilerie Meridionali)and T-393/10 (Westfälische Drahtindustrie) On 15 July 2015, the Court of First Instance of the European Union delivered no less than 16 judgments in three different cartel cases. It first delivered a series of 10 judgments (Cases T-389/10 and T-419/10, on the one hand, and Cases T-413/10 and T-414/10, on the other hand, were joined) concerning a first round of 12 out of the 28 appeals lodged against the decision of 30 June 2010.The Commission has since corrected