Luxembourg, 5 September 2024
This Opinion concerns a series of 13 appeals lodged by airlines against judgments of the General Court of the European Union of 30 March 2022 (see press release no 53/22 DE EN) for annulment of the European Commission Decision of 17 March 2017 relating to a cartel in the form of a single and continuous infringement on the market for airfreight.
The cartel at issue, implemented in its entirety over the period from 7 December 1999 to 14 February 2006, was penalised by the Commission on the basis of Article 101 TFEU, Article 53 of the Agreement on the European Economic Area (EEA) and Article 8 of the Agreement between the European Community and the Swiss Confederation on Air Transport (‘the EC-Switzerland Air Transport Agreement’) and concerns the freight services provided on the following routes: between airports within the EEA (‘intra-EEA routes’), between airports within the European Union and airports located outside the EEA (‘EU-third country routes’), between airports located in countries that are Contracting Parties to the EEA Agreement but not EU Member States and airports located in third countries (‘non-EU EEA-third country routes’ and, together with EU-third country routes, ‘EEA-third country routes’) and between airports within the European Union and Swiss airports (‘EU-Switzerland routes’).
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Source: curia.europa.eu