11/10/2016 - The EU General court ruled on an action for annulment brought by the Danish weekly magazine Søndagsavisen against a Commission decision of January 2013. The Commission's 2013 decision had found a Danish media support scheme to be in line with EU state aid rules. The court dismissed the action and upheld the Commission's 2013 decision.
30/9/2016 - The Commission welcomes today's judgment rejecting the appeal brought by Trajektna Luka Split against the Commission's decision to reject its antitrust complaint. The judgment confirms the right for the Commission to reject complaints which do not appear to raise a sufficient level of European Union interest and confirms that the Commission carried out a proper assessment of the matters of fact and law in this case. With the Decision, the Commission, in its discretion to set priorities, concluded that there were insufficient grounds for conducting a further investigation of the matters complained of. (F-1)
15/9/2016 - The Commission welcomes today's judgement on the request for preliminary ruling submitted by the Supreme Court in Poland as regards an application of PGE against the Polish energy regulator on the enforcement of annual adjustments to State aid by way of compensation for stranded costs in view of changes in the structures of the corporate groups to which the stranded costs beneficiaries belong. The dispute concerns the manner of calculating the stranded costs due in view of changes in corporate structures. By the ruling the Court of Justice reaffirms the exclusive competence of the Commission in assessing the compatibility with the internal market of State aid measures and allows a Member State, when performing the annual adjustments of the stranded costs granted to take a dynamic approach by taking into consideration continuously evolving market circumstances including changes in corporate structures that are subsequent to the moment when the Commission approved the aid.
14/9/2016 - The applicant appealed against the Commission Decision C(2013)7285 concerning port fees in Croatia. The Commission welcomes the judgment of the General Court dismissing the action of the appellant. Today's judgment fully confirms the Commission's finding that the measure complained of by Trajektna luka Split did not involve the transfer of State resources and thus did not constitute state aid.
15/9/2016 - The appellant brought action to anull the Commission Decision (2013)284 regarding a tax scheme on property used for non-commercial purposes. The Commission welcomes that the General Court dismissed the appeal in full.
15/9/2016 - The appellant brought action to anull the Commission Decision (2013)284 regarding a tax scheme on property used for non-commercial purposes. The Commission welcomes that the General Court dismissed the appeal in full.
15/9/2016 - The appellant lodged an appeal against the Commission Decision accepting the Commitments of Thomson Reuters regarding real-time datafeeds in a case of investigations regarding the abuse of a domimant position. The Court has dismissed this appeal and confirmed that the Commission has a wide discretion to make commitments binding or to reject them.
15/09/2016 - The appellants brought action before the court for annulment of Commission Decision 2014/884/EU on the State aid case SA.34445 (12/C) implemented by Denmark for the transfer of property-related assets from FIH to the FSC. In his judgment, the General Court now annulled the underlying Commission Decision of 2014.
15/9/2016 - The appellants brought action against the dismissal of the Court of an action against the Commission Decision C(2010)4387 and the modified Decision C(2010)2269 setting a fine in the prestressing steel case. The court now dismissed this action in full.
15/9/2016 - The appellant brought action against the dismissal of the Court of an action against the Commission Decision C(2010)4387 setting a fine in the prestressing steel case. The court now dismissed this action in full.
8/9/2016 - The Commission welcomes the judgment by the General Court, which upholds the Commission's assessment of the North Sea Shrimps cartel for Goldfish and other entities of the Heiploeg group. In November 2013, the Commission fined Goldfish and other entities of the Heiploeg group €27 million for operating a long-term cartel in breach of EU antitrust rules (see IP/13/1175). The Commission found that Heiploeg and other North Sea shrimps traders bilaterally discussed a wide range of aspects of their business, including their purchase prices from fishermen, conduct towards other traders on the market, market sharing, and prices charged to specific important customers that often set the benchmark price for other customers.
8/9/2016 - See case T-472/13.
8/9/2016 - See case T-472/13.
8/9/2016 - See case T-472/13.
8/9/2016 - The Commission welcomes the General Court's jugments which upheld the Commission's Lundbeck decision (cases T-472/13, T-460/13, T-467/13, T-469/13, T-470/13, T-471/13) and ruled for the first time that pharma pay-for-delay agreements breach EU antitrust rules. In such agreements an original pharmaceutical manufacturer pays generics producers to stay out of the market. The Commission's decision found that the Danish pharmaceutical company Lundbeck and four generics competitors had concluded agreements that harmed patients and health care systems. This allowed Lundbeck to keep the price of its blockbuster drug citalopram artificially high, in breach of Article 101 of the Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union. The decision imposed a fine of €93.8 million on Lundbeck and fines totalling €52.2 million on the four generics competitors, Generics UK, Arrow, Alpharma and Ranbaxy.
Fact sheet/Memo
8/9/2016 - The court of justice ruled on an appeal against a ruling in the carglass-cartel. The appellant argued against the initial findings of the court regarding an earlier appeal. The court dismissed the appeal in full.
