In a judgment returned on Tuesday 3 July in joined cases T-379/10 and T-381/10, the judges of the General Court of the European Union upheld the fines handed down by the European Commission in 2010 to Sanitec Europe and its subsidiaries over a cartel on the market for bathroom fixtures and fittings.
On 23 June 2010, the Commission issued fines for a total in excess of €622 million to 17 manufacturers of bathroom fixtures and fittings over a cartel contrary to the rules of EU competition...