Reports of Cases

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Subject-matter

Partial annulment of Commission Decision C(2006) 4090 final of 13 September 2006 relating to a proceeding under Article 81 EC (Case COMP/F/38.456 – Bitumen – Netherlands) concerning agreements fixing the gross price of road bitumen in the Netherlands and establishing a uniform minimum rebate for road construction companies belonging to the cartel and a lower maximum rebate for other road construction companies

Systematic classification scheme

Citations of case-law or legislation

References in grounds of judgment

• EC Treaty (Amsterdam), Article 81 : paragraphs 29, 31, 40, 42, 55
• EC Treaty (Amsterdam), Article 82 : paragraph 31
• Regulation 1/2003 -A02 : paragraph 40
• Court of Justice - Judgment C -49/92 : paragraph 38
• Court of Justice - Judgment C -279/98 : paragraph 38
• Court of Justice - Judgment C -286/98 : paragraphs 33 - 35
• Court of Justice - Judgment C -294/98 : paragraph 30
• Court of Justice - Judgment C -204/00 : paragraphs 29, 41
• General Court - Judgment T -203/01 : paragraph 31
• Court of Justice - Judgment C -189/02 : paragraph 30
• Court of Justice - Judgment C -217/05 : paragraph 29
• Court of Justice - Judgment C -280/06 : paragraph 38
• Court of Justice - Judgment C -97/08 : paragraphs 30 - 35, 45, 47, 53
• Court of Justice - Judgment C -90/09 : paragraphs 34, 45, 53
• Court of Justice - Judgment C -521/09 : paragraph 42

Operative part

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Opinion

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Dates

Date of the lodging of the application initiating proceedings

• 05/12/2006

Date of the Opinion

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Date of the hearing

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Date of delivery

27/09/2012

References

Publication in the Official Journal

Application: OJ C 20 from 27.01.2007, p.24

Judgment: OJ C 355 from 17.11.2012, p.17

Name of the parties

Koninklijke Volker Wessels Stevin v Commission

Notes on Academic Writings

1. Idot, Laurence: Cartels et « double entente horizontale », Europe 2012 Novembre Comm. nº 11 p.36-38 (FR)

Procedural Analysis Information

Source of the question referred for a preliminary ruling

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Subject-matter

• Competition
  
• - Agreements, decisions and concerted practices
  

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 : dismissal on substantive grounds
  

Formation of the Court

sixième chambre (Tribunal)

Judge-Rapporteur

Soldevila Fragoso

Advocate General

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Language(s) of the Case

• Dutch
  

Language(s) of the Opinion

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