Judgment of the Court of First Instance of 27 September 2006 — Dresdner Bank and Others v Commission

(Joined Cases T-44/02 OP, T-54/02 OP, T-56/02 OP, T-60/02 OP and T-61(02 OP) (1)

(Competition - Article 81 EC - Price-fixing agreement and ways of charging for currency exchange services - Germany - Evidence of the infringement - Application to set aside judgments delivered by default)

(2006/C 294/88)

Language of the case: German

Parties

Applicants: Dresdner Bank AG (Frankfurt-am-Main, Germany) (represented by: M. Hirsch and W. Bosch, lawyers); Bayerische Hypo- und Vereinsbank AG, formerly Vereins- und Westbank AG (Munich, Germany) (represented by:initially J. Schulte, M. Ewen and A. Neus, and subsequently W. Knapp, T. Müller-Ibold and C. Feddersen, lawyers); Bayerische Hypo- und Vereinsbank AG (Munich) (represented by: initially W. Knapp, T. Müller-Ibold and B. Bergmann, and subsequently W. Knapp, T. Müller-Ibold and C. Feddersen, lawyers); DVB Bank AG, formerly Deutsche Verkehrsbank AG (Frankfurt-am-Main) (represented by: M. Klusmann and F. Wiemer, lawyers); and Commerzbank AG (Frankfurt-am-Main) (represented by: H. Satzky and B. Maassen, lawyers)

Defendant: Commission of the European Communities (represented by: T. Christoforou, A. Nijenhuis and M Schneider, Agents)

Re:

Application by the Commission to set aside the judgments of the Court of First Instance of 14 October 2004 in Cases T-44/02 Dresdner Bank v Commission, not published in the ECR, T-54/02 Vereins- und Westbank v Commission, not published in the ECR, T-56/02 Bayerische Hypo- und Vereinsbank v Commission [2004] ECR II-3495, T-60/02 Deutsche Verkehrsbank v Commission, not published in the ECR, and T-61/02 Commerzbank v Commission, not published in the ECR, delivered in default

Operative part of the judgment

The Court:

(1)  OJ C 109, 4.5.2002.