Judgment of the General Court of 15 July 2015 — HIT Groep v Commission
(Case T-436/10) 1
(Competition — Agreements, decisions and concerted practices — European prestressing steel market — Price fixing, market sharing and exchanging of sensitive commercial information — Decision finding an infringement of Article 101 TFEU — Rules on imputing a subsidiary’s anti-competitive practices to its parent company — Presumption of the actual exercise of a decisive influence — Reasonable time)
Language of the case: Dutch
Parties
Applicant: HIT Groep BV (Haarlem, Netherlands) (represented initially by G. van der Wal, G. Oosterhuis and H. Albers, and subsequently by G. van der Wal and G. Oosterhuis, lawyers)
Defendant: European Commission (represented by: P. Van Nuffel, S. Noë and V. Bottka, Agents)
Re:
Application for annulment of Commission Decision C(2010) 4387 final of 30 June 2010 relating to a proceeding under Article 101 TFEU and Article 53 of the EEA Agreement (case COMP/38344 — Prestressing Steel), amended by Commission Decision C(2010) 6676 final of 30 September 2010, and by Commission Decision C(2011) 2269 final of 4 April 2011.
Operative part of the judgment
The Court:
Dismisses the action;
Orders HIT Groep BV to bear its own costs and to pay those incurred by the European Commission.
____________1 OJ C 317, 20.11.2010.