Reports of Cases before the Court of Justice and the Court of First Instance V. 2017-9

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2017-9 Reports of Cases before the Court of Justice and the Court of First Instance 1 (2017)

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VRw Reports of Cases

OPINION OF ADVOCATE GENERAL
WAHL
delivered on 20 October 2016'

Case C-413/14 P

Intel Corporation Inc.
V

European Commission

(Appeal - Article 102 TFEU - Abuse of dominant position - Loyalty rebates - Classification as abuse
- Applicable legal test - Single and continuous infringement - Rights of the defence - Article 19 of
Regulation (EC) No 1/2003 - Interview relating to the subject matter of an investigation -
Jurisdiction of the Commission - Implementation - Effects)

Table of contents

I - Legal framework .................................................................... 4

II - Background to the proceedings .................................................... 5

III - Procedure before the General Court and the judgment under appeal .......................... 8

IV - Procedure before the Court and forms of order sought ........................................ 8

V - Assessment of the grounds of appeal........................................ ............. 8

A - Introductory remarks .......................................................... 9

B - The first ground of appeal: the legal test to be applied to so-called 'exclusivity rebates' ...... 10

1. The main arguments of the parties ............................................. 10

2. Analysis ..... ................................................................... 11

(a) The principal assessment of the appellant's rebates and payments carried out by the
General Court ......................................................... 12

i) The basic tenets of the Court's case-law regarding rebates ........ ............ 12

1 Original language: English.

EN
ECLI:EU:C:2016:788 1