Limitation period : The General Court of the European Union upholds most of the Commission decision in the heat stabiliser cartel, but annuls it with respect to some subsidiaries, on grounds of statute of limitation (Akzo Nobel)

*This article is an automatic translation of the original article, provided here for your convenience. Read the original article. Akzo and its numerous subsidiaries continue to contribute to an impressive body of European case law, and the judgment under comment adds a further stone to the edifice. It will be recalled in particular that it was the checks carried out by the Commission in February 2003 in this case which gave rise to the still famous dispute on the scope of the professional secrecy of in-house lawyers, even if they were lawyers (TEU 17 September 2007, Akzo, T-125/03 and CJEU 14 Sept. 2010, Akzo, C-550/07 P). As the examination of the merits of the case had been suspended by the Commission pending the judgment of the Court of First Instance, the decision was only delivered