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Subject-matter

Appeal brought against the judgment of the General Court (Third Chamber) of 12 December 2012 in Case T-332/09 Electrabel v Commission by which the General Court confirmed the Commission’s decision of 10 June 2009 ordering the applicant to pay a fine of EUR 20 million for infringement of Article 7 of Regulation (EEC) No 4064/89 on the control of concentrations between undertakings (OJ 1989 L 395, p. 1) – Errors of law – Infringement of Article 14(3) of Regulation No 4064/89 – Criteria to be taken into account in setting the amount of the fine – Account taken of the duration of the infringement – Breach of the principle that the law should not be retroactive – Breach of the obligation to state reasons

Systematic classification scheme

Citations of case-law or legislation

References in grounds of judgment

• TFEU - Protocol No 3 -A21 : paragraph 49
• TFEU, Article 263 : paragraph 50
• Regulation 4064/89 : paragraph 5
• Regulation 4064/89 -A03P1 : paragraph 2
• Regulation 4064/89 -A07 : paragraph 3
• Regulation 4064/89 -A14P2 : paragraphs 4, 39
• Regulation 4064/89 -A14P3 : paragraph 4
• Regulation 4064/89 -A14P4 : paragraph 4
• General Court - Rules of Procedure (1991) -A44P1 : paragraph 49
• Regulation 1310/97 : paragraph 2
• Regulation 139/2004 -A03P1 : paragraph 6
• Regulation 139/2004 -A07P1 : paragraph 7
• Regulation 139/2004 -A14P2 : paragraph 8
• Regulation 139/2004 -A14P3 : paragraph 8
• Regulation 139/2004 -A14P4 : paragraph 8
• Regulation 139/2004 -A25 : paragraph 5
• Regulation 139/2004 -A26 : paragraph 5
• Court of Justice - Judgment C -367/95 : paragraph 50
• Court of Justice - Judgment C -265/97 : paragraph 50
• Court of Justice - Judgment C -89/08 : paragraph 50
• Court of Justice - Judgment C -485/08 : paragraph 36
• General Court - Judgment T -332/09 : paragraphs 1 - 65
• Court of Justice - Judgment C -628/10 : paragraph 35
• Court of Justice - Judgment C -204/11 : paragraph 35
• Court of Justice - Judgment C -272/12 : paragraph 49

Operative part

• Confirms : General Court - Judgment T -332/09

Opinion

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Dates

Date of the lodging of the application initiating proceedings

• 21/02/2013

Date of the Opinion

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Date of the hearing

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Date of delivery

03/07/2014

References

Publication in the Official Journal

Judgment: OJ C 292 from 01.09.2014, p.6

Application: OJ C 129 from 04.05.2013, p.6

Name of the parties

Electrabel v Commission

Notes on Academic Writings

1. Carloni, Francesco: Electrabel v Commission & COMP M.7184 Marine Harvest/Morpol: Gun-jumping and Violation of the Merger Standstill Obligation in Europe , Journal of European Competition Law & Practice 2014 Vol. 5 nº 10 p.693-696 (EN)

Procedural Analysis Information

Source of the question referred for a preliminary ruling

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Subject-matter

• Competition
  
• - Concentrations between undertakings
  

Provisions of national law referred to

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Provisions of international law referred to

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Procedure and result

• Actions for annulment
  
• Appeal brought against a sanction
  
• Appeals : dismissal on substantive grounds
  
• Appeals : dismissal on grounds of inadmissibility
  

Formation of the Court

dixième chambre (Cour)

Judge-Rapporteur

Juhász

Advocate General

Sharpston

Language(s) of the Case

• French
  

Language(s) of the Opinion

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