19/12/2008 (Agence Europe) - In a judgment delivered on Thursday 18 December, the Court of First Instance upheld the sanctions imposed by the Commission on General Química S.A. and the Spanish companies jointly holding it, Repsol YPF S.A. and Repsol Quimica S.A. The argument of the latter two companies, that their subsidiary General Química S.A. had independently and unknown to them taken part in a rubber chemicals cartel between 1999 and 2000, was rejected. The Court upheld the...