EUROPEAN COURT OF JUSTICE CANCELS COPPER FITTINGS CARTEL FINES
July 1st, 2013
The European Court of Justice (ECJ) today (Thursday July 4) threw out a bid by the European Commission to reverse the 2011 cancellation by a junior ECJ court of fines imposed on Dutch copper fittings company Aalberts Industries NV and its subsidiaries Comap (France) and Simplex Armaturen (Germany).Brussels had earlier concluded these companies had participated in a cartel to fix prices on the copper fittings market, together with 27 other companies. This had followed a detailed Commission investigation which concluded the companies had broken EU competition law ...
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