A Törvényszék T-194/13. számú ügyben hozott ítélete – A Bizottság összefonódást megtiltó határozatának a Törvényszék általi megsemmisítése a védelemhez való jog megsértése miatt

Abstract

The European Commission prohibited the acquisition of TNT Express by UPS, earlier in 2013, under the EU Merger Regulation declaring that the planned transaction is incompatible with the internal market. During the supervision procedure the General Court recently found that the Commission violated the UPS’s right of defence since the UPS was not in the position to comment the fi nal version of the econometric analysis used by the Commission and accordingly annulled the decision. The present case study gives an overview of the main legal arguments of the parties, summarises the reasoning of the General Court’s judge- ment and off ers a relevant interpretation of its importanc