Judgment of the General Court (Eighth Chamber) of 14 November 2012

Prysmian SpA and Prysmian Cavi e Sistemi Energia Srl v European Commission

Competition — Administrative procedure — Action for annulment — Acts adopted during an inspection — Intermediate measures — Inadmissibility — Decision ordering an inspection — Duty to state reasons — Protection of privacy — Reasonable grounds — Review by the Court

Case T‑140/09


Top of the page Documents in the Case
Document Date Name of the parties Subject-matter Curia EUR-Lex Autres Liens
Judgment (OJ)
07/12/2012 Prysmian and Prysmian Cavi e Sistemi Energia v Commission
Judgment
ECLI:EU:T:2012:597
14/11/2012 Prysmian and Prysmian Cavi e Sistemi Energia v Commission
Judgment (Information)
ECLI:EU:T:2012:597
14/11/2012 Prysmian and Prysmian Cavi e Sistemi Energia v Commission
Application (OJ)
20/06/2009 Prysmian and Prysmian Cavi e Sistemi Energia v Commission
Top of the page Legal analysis of the decision or of the case

Reports of Cases

published in the electronic Reports of Cases (Court Reports - general - 'Information on unpublished decisions' section)

Subject-matter

Annulment of Commission Decision C(2009) 92/2 of 9 January 2009 ordering Prysmian SpA and all undertakings controlled by it to submit to an inspection pursuant to Article 20(4) of Council Regulation No 1/2003, adopted in Article 81 EC proceedings concerning the European market in electrical cables and related material (Case COMP/39610 – Surge)

Systematic classification scheme

1.
4 Internal policy of the European Union
  4.08 Competition
    4.08.03 Implementation of the competition rules
      4.08.03.02 Procedure for the application of the competition rules by the Commission
        4.08.03.02.05 Investigations
4 Internal policy of the European Union
  4.08 Competition
    4.08.03 Implementation of the competition rules
      4.08.03.02 Procedure for the application of the competition rules by the Commission
        4.08.03.02.05 Investigations
4 Internal policy of the European Union
  4.08 Competition
    4.08.03 Implementation of the competition rules
      4.08.03.02 Procedure for the application of the competition rules by the Commission
        4.08.03.02.05 Investigations
3 Legal proceedings
  3.02 Actions for annulment
    3.02.01 Acts which may be the subject of an action for annulment
3 Legal proceedings
  3.02 Actions for annulment
    3.02.00 General


Citations of case-law or legislation

References in grounds of judgment

Operative part

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Opinion

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Dates

Date of the lodging of the application initiating proceedings

  • 07/04/2009

Date of the Opinion

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Date of the hearing

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Date of delivery

14/11/2012


References

Publication in the Official Journal

Application: OJ C 141 from 20.06.2009, p.50

Judgment: OJ C 399 from 22.12.2012, p.17

Name of the parties

Prysmian and Prysmian Cavi e Sistemi Energia v Commission

Notes on Academic Writings

  1. Idot, Laurence: Déroulement des inspections sur décision, Europe 2013 Janvier Comm. nº 1 p.39-40 (FR)
  2. Laghezza, Angela: From the Nexans judgment to the "next" improvements of the EU dawn raid procedure?, European Competition Law Review 2013 p.214-217 (EN)
  3. Puel, Frédéric: Nexans: Some Limitations to Inspections Carried Out by the European Commission in the Context of Investigations, Journal of European Competition Law & Practice 2013 Vol. 4 nº 4 p.312-314 (EN)



Procedural Analysis Information

Source of the question referred for a preliminary ruling

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Subject-matter

  • Competition

Provisions of national law referred to

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Provisions of international law referred to

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Procedure and result

  • Actions for annulment : application granted
  • Actions for annulment : dismissal on substantive grounds
  • Actions for annulment : dismissal on grounds of inadmissibility

Formation of the Court

huitième chambre (Tribunal)

Judge-Rapporteur

Kanninen

Advocate General

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Language(s) of the Case

  • Italian

Language(s) of the Opinion

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