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PRESS RELEASE No 24/24 
Luxembourg, 1 February 2024 
Judgment of the Court in Case C-251/22 P | Scania and Others v Commission 
Cartel on the truck market: the Court dismisses Scania’s appeal 
The fine of €880.520 million imposed by the Commission on that company for its participation in the cartel is 
upheld 
In its judgment of 2 February 2022 
1
, the General Court dismissed the action brought by Scania for annulment of a 
decision 
2
 of the European Commission. In that decision, the Commission found that the companies Scania AB, 
Scania CV AB and Scania Deutschland GmbH, three entities of the Scania group, which produce and sell heavy trucks 
used for long-haulage transport, had infringed the rules of EU law prohibiting cartels 
3
. Those infringements 
consisted in their participation, from January 1997 to January 2011, with their competitors, in collusive arrangements 
aimed at restricting competition on the market for medium and heavy trucks in the European Economic Area (EEA). 
The Commission imposed a fine of €880,523,000 on Scania. 
Scania appealed against the judgment of the General Court to the Court of Justice, which today dismisses it in its 
entirety, thereby upholding the judgment of the General Court. 
The Court of Justice finds that Scania has not succeeded in demonstrating that the General Court failed to 
assess whether the administrative procedure, resumed against Scania after its withdrawal from the settlement 
procedure allowing the parties in the cartel cases to acknowledge their liability and to receive, in exchange, a 
reduction in the amount of the fine imposed, complied with the principle of impartiality. In confirming, in 
essence, the assessment made by the General Court, the Court of Justice finds that the mere fact that the same 
Commission team was responsible for adopting both the settlement decision and the final decision concerning 
Scania does not, by itself, call into question the impartiality of that institution in the absence of any other objective 
evidence. Scania has not shown that it put forward any such objective evidence before the General Court. 
The Court of Justice also dismisses Scania’s arguments to the effect that the General Court wrongly characterised 
the geographic scope of its conduct at German level meetings as extending to the entire territory of the EEA. 
Similarly, the Court of Justice refutes the premiss that, in order to establish the existence of a single and continuous 
infringement, the General Court should have required the Commission also to establish that each of the acts 
concerned, taken in isolation, constituted in itself an infringement. 
Finally, the Court of Justice observes that, in the light of its analysis of the grounds put forward by Scania, it must 
take as read the conclusion of the Commission, and subsequently that of the General Court, that the infringement at 
issue ended on 18 January 2011, so that the five-year limitation period only began to run from that date and that the 
Commission’s power to impose a fine was therefore not time-barred. 
 
 

  
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1
 Judgment of the General Court of 2 February 2022, Scania and Others v Commission, T-799/17 (see also Press Release No 20/22). 
2
 Commission Decision C(2017) 6467 final of 27 September 2017 relating to a proceeding under Article 101 TFEU and Article 53 of the Agreement on 
the European Economic Area (EEA) (Case AT.39824 – Trucks). 
3
 Article 101 TFEU and Article 53 of the EEA Agreement. 

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The Court of Justice has upheld the fine imposed by the European Commission on Scania for its participation in a cartel on the truck market. The Commission found that Scania, along with other companies, had infringed EU law by participating in collusive arrangements aimed at restricting competition in the market for medium and heavy trucks in the European Economic Area. Scania appealed the decision to the General Court, which dismissed the action, and the Court of Justice has now upheld that decision. The Court found that Scania failed to demonstrate that the administrative procedure complied with the principle of impartiality and dismissed Scania's arguments regarding the geographic scope of its conduct and the establishment of a single and continuous infringement. The Court also confirmed that the infringement ended on 18 January 2011 and that the Commission's power to impose a fine was not time-barred.

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