Judgment of the General Court of 11 December 2013 – Cisco Systems and Messagenet v Commission
(Case T-79/12) 1
(Competition – Concentrations – European markets for internet communications services – Decision declaring the concentration compatible with the internal market – Manifest errors of assessment – Obligation to state reasons)
Language of the case: English
Parties
Applicants: Cisco Systems, Inc. (San Jose, California, United States) and Messagenet SpA (Milan, Italy) (represented by: L. Ortiz Blanco, J. Buendía Sierra, A. de Pablo and K. Jörgens, lawyers)
Defendant: European Commission (represented by: N. Khan, S. Noë and C. Hödlmayr, Agents)
Intervener in support of the defendant: Microsoft Corp. (Seattle, Washington, United States) (represented by: G. Berrisch, lawyer)
Re:
Application for annulment of Commission Decision C(2011) 7279 final of 7 October 2011 declaring compatible with the internal market the merger transaction involving the acquisition of control of Skype Global Sàrl by Microsoft Corp. (Case COMP/M.6281 – Microsoft/Skype).
Operative part of the judgment
The Court:
Dismisses the action;
Orders Cisco Systems Inc. and Messagenet SpA to bear their own costs and to pay those incurred by the European Commission and Microsoft Corp.
________________________1 OJ C 109, 14.4.2012.