Order of the Court of First Instance of 17 October 2005 - First Data Corp. and Others v Commission of the European Communities
(Competition - Article 81 EC - Visa payment card scheme - The 'no-acquiring-without-issuing' rule - Negative clearance - Rule abolished during the proceedings - Legal interest in bringing proceedings - No need to adjudicate)
Language of the case: English
Parties:
Applicants: First Data Corp. (Wilmington, Delaware, USA), FDR Ltd (Dover, Delaware, United States), and First Data Merchant Services Corp. (Sunrise, Florida, USA) (represented by: initially, P. Bos and M. Nissen, then P. Bos, lawyers)
Defendant: Commission of the European Communities (represented by: initially, R. Wainwright, W. Wils and V. Superti, then R. Wainwright and T. Christoforou, Agents)
Application for
annulment of the fifth indent of Article 1 of Commission Decision 2001/782/EC of 9 August 2001 relating to a proceeding under Article 81 of the EC Treaty and Article 53 of the EEA Agreement (Case No COMP/29.373 - Visa International) (OJ 2001 L 293, p. 24)
Operative part of the Order
1. There is no need to adjudicate on this case.
2. The applicants and the Commission shall bear their own costs.
____________1 - OJ C 109, 4.5.2002.