EU General Court Reduces Infineon's Fine for Cartel Case
July 08 2020 - 7:15AM
Dow Jones News
By Mauro Orru
The General Court of the European Union said Wednesday that it
has ordered a reduction for a fine imposed on Infineon Technologies
AG for its participation in a cartel in the smart card chip market
in the European Economic Area.
The court ordered a reduction for the fine against the German
chip maker to 76.9 million euros ($86.7 million) from EUR82.9
million, as the commission which imposed the original fine "took
insufficient account of the limited number of the anticompetitive
contacts which Infineon had had with its competitors."
The commission established in 2014 the existence of a cartel in
the smart card chip sector from 2003 to 2005 in which Infineon,
Koninklijke Philips NV, Samsung Electronics Co. and Renesas
Electronics Corp. engaged in anticompetitive practices.
The latest ruling comes as the court said the commission didn't
give enough weight to the fact that Infineon participated in just
10 anticompetitive contacts out of 41 for the whole cartel.
Write to Mauro Orru at mauro.orru@wsj.com; @MauroOrru94
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