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Action brought on 29 September 2008 - AKKA/LAA v Commission

(Case T-414/08)

Language of the case: English

Parties

Applicant: Autortiesību un komunicēšanās konsultāciju aģentūra/Latvijas Autoru apvienība (AKKA/LAA) (Riga, Latvia) (represented by: M. Favart, lawyer)

Defendant: Commission of the European Communities

Form of order sought

Annul Article 3 of the Commission Decision of 16 July 2008 relating to a proceeding under Article 81 EC and Article 53 EEA (Case COMP/C2/38698 - CISAC); and

Order the Commission to pay the costs.

Pleas in law and main arguments

By means of the present application, the applicant seeks, pursuant to Article 230 EC, the annulment of Article 3 of Commission Decision C(2008) 3435 of 16 July 2008 relating to a proceeding under Article 81 EC and Article 53 EEA (Case COMP/C2/38698 - CISAC) alleging that 24 of CISAC¹'s EEA based societies, including the applicant, engaged in a concerted practice "by coordinating the territorial delineations of the reciprocal representation mandates granted to one another in a way which limits a licence to the domestic territory of each collecting society."

The main pleas and arguments are similar or identical to those raised in Case T-413/08.

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¹ - Refers to the International Confederation of Societies of Authors and Composers ("CISAC")