Judgment of the General Court of 6 February 2014 – CEEES and Asociación de Gestores de Estaciones de Servicio v Commission
(Case T-342/11) 1
(Competition – Agreements, decisions and concerted practices – Spanish service station market – Decision dismissing a complaint – Regulation (EC) No 1/2003 – Failure to fulfil obligations made compulsory by a Commission decision – Reopening of the proceedings – Fines – Periodic penalty payments)
Language of the case: Spanish
Parties
Applicants: Confederación Española de Empresarios de Estaciones de Servicio (CEEES) (Madrid, Spain) and Asociación de Gestores de Estaciones de Servicio (Madrid) (represented by: A. Hernández Pardo and B. Marín Corral, lawyers)
Defendant: European Commission (represented by: J. Baquero Cruz and F. Ronkes Agerbeek, Agents)
Interveners in support of the defendant : Kingdom of Spain (represented by: initially M. Muñoz Pérez, then S. Centeno Huerta, and finally A. Rubio González, Abogados del Estado) and Repsol Comercial de Productos Petrolíferos, S.A. (represented by: J. Jiménez-Laiglesia Oñate and S. Rivero Mena, lawyers)
Re:
Action for annulment of Commission Decision C(2011) 2994 final of 28 April 2011 dismissing the complaint brought by the applicants regarding infringements of the competition rules committed by Repsol (Case COMP/39461).
Operative part of the judgment
The Court:
Dismisses the action;
Orders the Confederación Española de Empresarios de Estaciones de Servicio (CEEES) and the Asociación de Gestores de Estaciones de Servicio to bear their own costs and those incurred by the European Commission;
Orders the Kingdom of Spain to bear its own costs;
Orders Repsol Comercial de Productos Petrolíferos, S.A. to bear its own costs.
____________1 OJ C 252, 27.8.2011.