Memo: Antitrust: Commission welcomes European Court of Justice judgment in the French Beef case

The European Commission welcomed the judgment by the European Court of Justice dismissing the action by four French federations of farmers and one French federation of slaughterers in relation to the Commission's April 2003 decision fining a price agreement and an agreement to suspend/limit imports from other Member States (cases C-101/07 and C-110/07). This judgment put an end to the case and confirmed the principle that in the case of antitrust violations by associations of undertakings, the fine can take account of take account of the turnovers of the association's members.

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