Judgment of the General Court of 14 March 2014 — Schwenk Zement v Commission

(Case T-306/11) ¹

(Competition — Administrative proceeding — Decision to request information — Necessity of the information requested — Duty to state reasons — Proportionality)

Language of the case: German

Parties

Applicants: Schwenk Zement KG (Ulm, Germany) (represented by: M. Raible, lawyer)

Defendant: European Commission (represented by: M. Kellerbauer, R. Sauer and C. Hödlmayer, acting as Agents, and A. Böhlke, lawyer)

Re:

Action for annulment of Commission Decision C(2011) 2367 final of 30 March 2011, in the context of a procedure pursuant to Article 18(3) of Council Regulation (EC) No 1/2003 (Case COMP/39520 — cement and related products).

Operative part of the judgment

The Court:

Annuls Commission Decision C(2011) 2367 final of 30 March 2011 in the context of a procedure pursuant to Article 18(3) of Council Regulation (EC) No 1/2003 (Case COMP 39520 — cement and related products) as regards the 11th series of questions in the questionnaire constituting Annex I thereto;

Orders Schwenk Zement KG to bear two thirds of its own costs and two thirds of the costs incurred by the European Commission, and orders the Commission to bear one third of its own costs and one third of the costs incurred by Schwenk Zement KG;

Dismisses the remainder of the action.

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¹ OJ C 238, 13.8.2011.