Judgment of the General Court of 26 October 2010 - CNOP and CCG v Commission
(Competition - Administrative procedure - Decision ordering an inspection - Article 20( 4) of Regulation (EC) No 1/2003 - Absence of legal personality of an addressee - Obligation to state the reasons on which the decision is based - Concepts of undertaking and association of undertakings)
Language of the case: French
Parties
Applicants: Conseil national de l'Ordre des pharmaciens (CNOP) (Paris, France); and Conseil central de la section G de l'Ordre national des pharmaciens (CCG) (Paris) (represented initially by Y. R. Guillou, H. Speyart van Woerden, T. Verstraeten and C. van Sasse van Ysselt, and subsequently by Y. R.Guillou, L. Defalque and C. Robert, lawyers)
Defendant: European Commission (represented by: A. Bouquet and É. Gippini Fournier, Agents)
Re:
Application for annulment of Commission Decision C(2008) 6494 of 29 October 2008 in Case COMP/39510 ordering the Ordre national des pharmaciens (ONP), the CNOP and the CCG to submit to an inspection pursuant to Article 20(4) of Council Regulation (EC) No 1/2003 of 16 December 2002 on the implementation of the rules on competition laid down in Articles 81 [EC] and 82 [EC] (OJ 2003 L 1, p. 1).
Operative part of the judgment
The Court:
Dismisses the action;
Orders the Conseil national de l'Ordre des pharmaciens (CNOP) and the Conseil central de la section G de l'Ordre national des pharmaciens (CCG) to pay the costs.
____________1 - OJ C 55, 7.3.2009.