Language of document : ECLI:EU:T:2009:5





Order of the President of the Court of First Instance of 15 January 2009 – Ziegler v Commission

(Case T-199/08 R)

Interim measures – Competition – Payment of a fine – Bank guarantee – Application for stay of execution – Lack of urgency

1.                     Application for interim measures – Conditions of admissibility– Application – Formal requirements (Arts 242 EC and 243 EC; Rules of Procedure of the Court of First Instance, Art. 104(2)) (see paras 18-21)

2.                     Application for interim measures – Suspension of operation of a measure – Interim measures – Conditions for granting – Urgency – Serious and irreparable damage (Arts 242 EC and 243 EC; Rules of Procedure of the Court of First Instance, Art. 104(2)) (see paras 44-46)

3.                     Application for interim measures – Suspension of operation of a measure – Suspension of operation of the obligation to provide a bank guarantee as a condition for not proceeding to immediate recovery of a fine imposed for breach of the competition rules – Conditions for granting (Art. 242 EC; Rules of Procedure of the Court of First Instance, Art. 104(2)) (see paras 48, 50-54)

Re:

APPLICATION for a stay of execution of Commission Decision C(2008) 926 final of 11 March 2008 on a proceeding under Article 81 [EC] and Article 53 of the EEA Agreement (Case COMP/38.543 – International Removal Services).

Operative part

1.

The application for interim measures is dismissed.

2.

Costs are reserved.