Judgment of the Court (First Chamber) of 3 September 2009 — William Prym GmbH & Co. KG, Prym Consumer GmbH & Co. KG v Commission of the European Communities

(Case C-534/07 P) (1)

(Appeal - Competition - Agreements, decisions and concerted practices - European haberdashery market (needles) - Market sharing agreements - Infringement of the rights of the defence - Obligation to state the reasons on which the decision is based - Fine - Guidelines - Gravity of the infringement - Actual impact on the market - Implementation of the cartel)

2009/C 256/08

Language of the case: German

Parties

Appellants: William Prym GmbH & Co. KG, Prym Consumer GmbH & Co. KG (represented by: H.-J. Niemeyer, C. Herrmann and M. Röhrig, Rechtsanwälte)

Other party to the proceedings: Commission of the European Communities (represented by: F. Castillo de la Torre and K. Mojzesowicz, acting as Agents)

Re:

Appeal brought against the judgment of the Court of First Instance (Second Chamber) of 12 September 2007 in Case T-30/05 Prym and Prym Consumer v Commission, in which the Court fixed the amount of the fine imposed on the applicants by Article 2 of Commission Decision C(2004) 4221 final of 26 October 2004 relating to a procedure for the application of Article 81 EC (Case COMP/F-1/38.338-PO/Needles) at EUR 27 million — Agreement, decision or concerted practice in the market for haberdashery (needles)

Operative part of the judgment

The Court:

(1)  OJ C 37, 9.2.2008.