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Subject-matter

Annulment of Decision C (2007) 6474 final of 19 December 2007 regarding a procedure for the application of Article 81 of the EC Treaty and Article 53 of the EEA Agreement (Cases COMP/34.579 – MasterCard, COMP/36.518 – EuroCommerce, COMP/38.580 – Commercial Cards) concerning the intra-EEA multilateral interchange commissions applied by MasterCard to cross-border transactions by payment card carried out using debit and credit cards and charged to consumers, bearing the logo MasterCard or Maestro in the European Economic Area or, in the alternative, annulment of the instruction addressed to the applicant to discontinue those commissions within six months, failing which daily penalty payments will be applied

Systematic classification scheme

Citations of case-law or legislation

References in grounds of judgment

• EC Treaty (Amsterdam), Article 81 : paragraphs 171, 314
• EC Treaty (Amsterdam), Article 81 -P1 : paragraphs 74 - 302
• EC Treaty (Amsterdam), Article 81 -P3 : paragraphs 73, 80, 81, 101, 150, 151, 182, 190, 192, 194 - 237, 314, 326, 327
• EC Treaty (Amsterdam), Article 82 : paragraph 171
• EC Treaty (Amsterdam), Article 253 : paragraph 309
• TFEU - Protocol No 3 -A21 : paragraphs 68, 69
• General Court - Rules of Procedure (1991) -A44P1LC : paragraphs 68, 69, 189, 282
• General Court - Rules of Procedure (1991) -A46P1LB : paragraph 70
• General Court - Rules of Procedure (1991) -A47P1 : paragraph 69
• Regulation 1/2003 -A02 : paragraph 196
• Regulation 1/2003 -A07 : paragraphs 306, 324
• Regulation 1/2003 -A14 : paragraphs 294, 297
• Regulation 1/2003 -A18 : paragraph 156
• Regulation 1/2003 -A24P1LA : paragraphs 307, 320, 321
• Court of Justice - Judgment C -85/76 : paragraph 170
• Court of Justice - Judgment C -322/81 : paragraph 170
• Court of Justice - Judgment C -45/85 : paragraph 251
• General Court - Judgment T -13/89 : paragraph 140
• General Court - Judgment T -1/90 : paragraph 63
• Court of Justice - Judgment C -310/93 : paragraph 265
• General Court - Judgment T -374/94 : paragraph 87
• General Court - Judgment T -395/94 : paragraph 64
• Court of Justice - Judgment C -7/95 : paragraph 98
• Court of Justice - Judgment C -367/95 : paragraph 309
• General Court - Judgment T -86/95 : paragraphs 228, 267
• Court of Justice - Judgment C -180/96 : paragraph 323
• General Court - Judgment T -65/96 : paragraph 169
• General Court - Judgment T -65/98 : paragraphs 101, 182, 206
• Court of Justice - Judgment C -194/99 : paragraph 269
• Court of Justice - Judgment C -199/99 : paragraph 63
• Court of Justice - Judgment C -309/99 : paragraph 243
• General Court - Judgment T -61/99 : paragraph 171
• General Court - Judgment T -112/99 : paragraphs 77 - 82, 89
• General Court - Judgment T -342/99 : paragraph 169
• Court of Justice - Judgment C -204/00 : paragraph 266
• General Court - Judgment T -213/00 : paragraph 266
• Court of Justice - Judgment C -189/01 : paragraph 323
• General Court - Judgment T -168/01 : paragraphs 196, 197, 199 - 202, 228
• General Court - Judgment T -310/01 : paragraph 267
• General Court - Judgment T -44/02 : paragraph 154
• General Court - Judgment T -193/02 : paragraph 124
• General Court - Judgment T -201/04 : paragraphs 68, 69, 71
• General Court - Judgment T -358/04 : paragraph 63
• Court of Justice - Judgment C -501/06 : paragraph 139
• Court of Justice - Judgment C -8/08 : paragraph 242
• Court of Justice - Judgment C -407/08 : paragraph 269

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Opinion

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Dates

Date of the lodging of the application initiating proceedings

• 01/03/2008

Date of the Opinion

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Date of the hearing

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Date of delivery

24/05/2012

References

Publication in the Official Journal

Application: OJ C 116 from 09.05.2008, p.26

Judgment: OJ C 200 from 07.07.2012, p.11

Name of the parties

MasterCard and Others v Commission

Notes on Academic Writings

1. Idot, Laurence: Secteur bancaire et commissions multilatérales d'interchange, Europe 2012 Mai Comm. nº 7 p.281 (FR)
2. Debroux, Michel ; De Bakker, Florence: Commissions multilatérales d’interchange : Le Tribunal de l’UE confirme la condamnation d’une organisation internationale de paiement par la Commission européenne (Mastercard), Concurrences : revue des droits de la concurrence 2012 nº 3 p.90-91 (FR)
3. Tuominen, N.: La jurisprudence de la Cour de justice et du Tribunal de l'Union européenne. Chronique des arrêts. Arrêt « MasterCard, Inc. et autres c. Commission européenne », Revue du droit de l'Union européenne 2012 nº 2 p.349-352 (FR)
4. Gee, Alexander: MasterCard: Illegality Confirmed for Multilateral interchange Fees for Payment Card Transactions, Journal of European Competition Law & Practice 2012 Vol. 3 nº 6 p.549-551 (EN)
5. Skubic, Zoran: Drago plačevanje in predraga uporaba plačilnih kartic v EU, Pravna praksa 2012 nº 21 p.37-38 (SL)
6. Kapural, Mirta: Međubankovne naknade za platne transakcije putem kartica i nova EU Uredba, Pravo i porezi 2015 n° 7-8 p.58-68 (HR)
7. Kőhalmi, Attila ; Martinovic, Boris: A MIF sztori - avagy a bankközi jutalék tündöklése és hanyatlása - a bankközi jutalék versenyjogi megítélése az Európai Bizottság eljárásaiban, Versenytükör 2016 III. szám p.60-68 (HU)

Procedural Analysis Information

Source of the question referred for a preliminary ruling

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Subject-matter

• Competition
  
• - Agreements, decisions and concerted practices
  
• - Concerted practices
  

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Procedure and result

• Actions for annulment : dismissal on substantive grounds
  

Formation of the Court

septième chambre (Tribunal)

Judge-Rapporteur

Prek

Advocate General

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Language(s) of the Case

• English
  

Language(s) of the Opinion

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