Judgment of the General Court of 12 December 2014 — Repsol Lubricantes y Especialidades and Others v Commission

(Case T-562/08) ¹

(Competition — Agreements — Paraffin waxes market — Decision finding an infringement of Article 81 EC — Price fixing and division of markets — Proof of the existence of the agreement — Duration of the infringement — 2006 Guidelines for calculating the amount of fines — Equal treatment — Presumption of innocence — Whether unlawful conduct attributable — Liability of a parent company for infringements of the competition rules committed by its subsidiaries — Decisive influence exercised by the parent company — Presumption in the case of a 100% shareholding)

Language of the case: Spanish

Parties

Applicants: Repsol Lubricantes y Especialidades, SA, formerly Repsol Lubricantes YPF y Especialidades, SA (Madrid, Spain); Repsol Petróleo, SA (Madrid); and Repsol, SA, formerly Repsol YPF, SA (Madrid) (represented by: J. M. Jiménez-Laiglesia Oñate, J. Jiménez-Laiglesia Oñate and S. Rivero Mena, lawyers)

Defendant: European Commission (represented by: F. Castillo de la Torre, F. Castilla Contreras and C. Urraca Caviedes, Agents)

Re:

Application for annulment of Commission Decision C (2008) 5476 final of 1 October 2008 relating to a proceeding under Article 81 of the EC Treaty and Article 53 of the EEA Agreement (Case COMP/39.181 — Candle Waxes) and application for a reduction of the amount of the fine imposed on the applicants.

Operative part of the judgment

The Court:

Dismisses the action;

Orders Repsol Lubricantes y Especialidades, SA, Repsol Petróleo, SA, and Repsol, SA, to bear their own costs and those incurred by the European Commission.

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¹ OJ C 44, 21.2.2009.