Order of the Vice-President of the Court of 21 March 2019 — Crédit agricole and Crédit agricole Corporate and Investment Bank v Commission

(Case C‑4 /19 P(R)]

(Appeal — Application for interim measures — Competition — Euro Interest Rate Derivatives sector — European Commission decision establishing an infringement of Article 101 TFEU — Decision 2011/695/EU — Dismissal of an application for confidential treatment of the decision — Information claimed to be confidential — Publication — Principle of the presumption of innocence — Prima facie case )

1.      Application for interim measures — Suspension of operation of a measure — Interim measures — Conditions for granting — Prima facie case — Urgency — Serious and irreparable damage — Cumulative nature — Balancing of all the interests involved — Assessment in litigation of the protection of confidential information — Condition of prima facie case not satisfied

(Arts 278 and 279 TFEU; Rules of Procedure of the General Court, Art. 156(4)

(see paras 12, 13, 18-23)

2.      Competition — Administrative procedure — Professional secrecy — Establishing whether information is covered by professional secrecy — Balancing of the public interest in the transparency of EU action and legitimate interests opposed to disclosure – An undertaking’s interest in the non-disclosure of certain information in relation to its conduct — Interest not deserving any particular protection in the case of undertakings which participated in an infringement of EU competition rules

(Arts 101 and 102 TFUE; Council Regulation No 1/2003, Arts 28 and 30)

(see paras 33-36)

Operative part

1. The appeal is dismissed.

2. Crédit Agricole SA and Crédit Agricole Corporate and Investment Bank shall pay the costs in the present appeal proceedings and in the interim proceedings in Case C‑4/19 P(R)-R.