In a judgment (Case C-251/22 P) handed down on Thursday 1 February, the Court of Justice of the European Union dismissed in its entirety the appeal lodged by several companies in the Scania group, a producer of heavy goods vehicles, thereby upholding the €880.5 million fine imposed on it by the European Commission in 2017 for illegal cartels between 1997 and 2011 (see EUROPE B12882A18).
In this case, the manufacturers receiving the European Commission’s statement of objections as part...