Brussels, 26/01/2007 (Agence Europe) - A 1999 decision by the European Commission was confirmed by the European Court of Justice in a ruling published on Thursday 25 January, finding four companies (two from Europe and two from Japan) guilty of setting up a cartel in the steel tubes market. In combined cases C-403/04 P, C-405/04 P, C-407/04 and C-411/04 P, the Court of Justice dismissed in their entirety the appeals by the defence, thereby confirming the European Commission's decision.
On 8...