Memo: Competition: Commission welcomes Court of Justice judgment in zinc phosphate case

The European Commission welcomes the 7 June 2007 judgment by the European Court of Justice (case C-76/06 P) dismissing the action by Britannia Alloys & Chemicals Ltd against the judgment of the European Court of First Instance of 29 November 2005 (case T-33/02). In the latter judgment, the Court of First Instance had dismissed the action brought by Britannia Alloys & Chemicals Ltd against the Commission decision of 11 December 2001 fining the company €3.37 million for participating in a cartel in zinc phosphate. The Court of Justice has now confirmed the original findings of the Court of First Instance, and dismissed the appeal in its entirety. The fines imposed by the Commission in the original decision have now been definitively upheld.