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2012-12 E.C.R. 1 (2012)

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Reports of Cases


                                        Case C-457/10P

                                        AstraZeneca AB

                                              and

                                        AstraZeneca plc
                                               V
                                     European Commission


(Appeal - Competition - Abuse of dominant position - Market in anti-ulcer medicines - Abuse of
procedures relating to supplementary protection certificates for medicinal products and of marketing
  authorisation procedures for medicinal products - Misleading representations - Deregistration of
     marketing authorisations - Obstacles to the marketing of generic medicinal products and to
                                        parallel imports)


               Summary - judgment of the Court (First Chamber), 6 December 2012

1.  Competition - Dominant position - Relevant market - Delimitation - Criteria - Demand side
    substitutability of the products - Launch of a new product - Gradual nature of the increase in
    sales of a new product not necessarily meaning that a competitive constraint is exercised by an
    existing product

    (Art. 82 EC)

2.  Appeals -   Grounds -   Incorrect assessment of the facts and evidence -  Inadmissibility -
    Review by the Court of the assessment of the facts and evidence - Possible only where the clear
    sense of the evidence has been distorted

    (Art. 256(1) TFEL; Statute of the Court of Justice, Art. 58, first para.)

3.  Competition - Dominant position - Abuse - Concept - Pharmaceutical undertaking

    (Art. 82 EC)

4.  Competition     Dominant position - Abuse -     Submission of misleading information to the
    authorities    Information enabling an exclusive right to be issued -    Abusive nature -
    Criteria for assessment

    (Art. 82 EC)

5.  Competition - Dominant position - Abuse -       Obligations on the dominant undertaking -
    Pharmaceutical undertaking - Competition on the basis of merit - Scope

    (Art. 82 EC)


ECLI:EU:C:2012:770

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