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2013-7 E.C.R. 1 (2013)

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ZCVRLA


Reports of Cases


         Case C-287/11 P

      European  Commission
                V
Aalberts Industries NV and Others


(Appeal - Agreements, decisions and concerted practices - European market - Copper and copper
alloy fittings sector - Commission decision - Finding of an infringement of Article 101 TFEU -
     Fines - Single, complex and continuous infringement - Cessation of the infringement -
        Continuation of the infringement by certain participants - Repeated infringement)


                Summary  -  Judgment of the Court (Third Chamber), 4 July 2013


1.  Competition -
    subsidiaries
    economic unit


- European Union  rules - Infringements
Economic  unit -  Criteria for assessment
- Failure by the General Cour to examine


-  Attribution - Parent company  and
-  Challenge to the classification as an
that plea in law - Error of law


    (Art. 81 EC)

2.  Appeals  -  Grounds  -  Grounds for a judgment  vitiated by an infringement of EU  law -
    Operative part well founded for other legal reasons - Rejection

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

3.  Appeals  -  Grounds -  Review  by the Court of the assessment of the facts and evidence -
    Possible only where the clear sense of the evidence has been distorted - Ground of appeal alleging
    distortion of the clear sense of the evidence - Necessity of indicating precisely the evidence alleged
    to have been distorted and showing the errors of appraisal which led to that distortion

    (Art. 256(1), second para., TFEU; Statute of the Court of Justice, Arts. 51, first para., and 58, first
    para.; Rules of Procedure of the Court of Justice, Art. 168(1)(d))

4.  Agreements, decisions and concerted practices - Prohibition - Infringements - Agreements and
    concerted practices constituting a single infringement - Attribution of liability to an undertaking
    for the entire infringement - Conditions

    (Art. 81(1) EC)

1. In competition law, the conduct of a subsidiary may be attributed to the parent company in
particular where that subsidiary, despite having a separate legal personality, does not decide
independently upon  its own conduct on the market, but carries out, in all material respects, the
instructions given to it by the parent company, regard being had in particular to the economic,
organisational and legal links between those two legal entities.


ECLJ:EU:C:2013:4451


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