The General Court of the European Union has dismissed the appeal brought by truck manufacturer Scania filed against the European Commission’s September 2017 decision fining it €880.5 million for cartels with other manufacturers between 1997 and 2011 (see EUROPE B11871A7), in a judgment handed down on Wednesday 2 February (Case T-799/17).
The General Court clarifies the legality of a so-called ‘hybrid’ procedure, which combines the settlement procedure and, in a second step, the...