Judgment of the Court of First Instance (Second Chamber) of 12 September 2007 - UFEX and Others v Commission of the European Communities
(Competition - Abuse of a dominant position - International express courier market - Decision dismissing complaint - Annulment by Community judicature of decision dismissing complaint - Re-examination and dismissal anew of complaint - Public undertaking)
Language of the case: French
Parties
Applicants: Union française de l'express (UFEX) (Roissy-en-France, France), DHL Express (France) SAS, formerly DHL International SA (Roissy-en-France); Federal express international (France) SNC (Gennevilliers, France); and CRIE SA, (Asnières, France) (represented by: É. Morgan de Rivery and J. Derenne, lawyers)
Defendant: Commission of the European Communities (represented initially by A. Bouquet and O. Beynet, then by A. Bouquet and V. Di Bucci, agents)
Interveners in support of the defendant: Chronopost SA, (Issy-les-Moulineaux, France), represented by D. Berlin, lawyer and La Poste, (Paris, France), represented by H. Lehman, lawyer
Re:
Annulment of Commission decision SG-Greffe (2004) D/205294 of 19 November 2004 rejecting the action brought by the applicants against La Poste and the French Government concerning the international express courier market in France.
Operative part of the judgment
The Court:
orders removal of CRIE SA from the list of applicants;
dismisses the action;
orders Union française de l'express (UFEX), DHL Express (France) SAS, and Federal express international (France) SNC to pay, in addition to their own costs, three quarters of the costs of Chronopost SA and La Poste, Chronopost SA and La Poste to bear one quarter of their own costs; orders CRIE to pay, in addition to its own costs, one quarter of the costs of the Commission, the Commission to bear three quarters of its own costs.
____________1 - OJ C 93 of 16. 4. 2005.