In conclusions returned on Thursday 12 April (case C-99/17), Advocate General Melchior Whatelet considers that the General Court of the European Union (EGC) did not respond “to the required legal level” to the arguments of Infineon Technologies, which contested a fine handed down to it by the European Commission in 2014.
On 3 September 2014, three companies - Infineon of Germany, Philips of the Netherlands and Samsung of South Korea - were fined by the Commission for a cartel on the chip...