The General Court annuls the 2009 Intel Decision – When are conditional rebates abusive?
3 February 2022
On 26 January 2022, the General Court (GC) quashed the 2009 decision of the European Commission (EC) which fined Intel EUR 1.06 billion for implementing an abusive rebate scheme alongside other restrictive practices. Ruling for the second time on the matter, after its first judgment upholding the decision was reversed on appeal, the GC found that the EC did not sufficiently evidence the alleged anticompetitive effects resulting from Intel's rebates and annulled the finding of an infringement and the fine in its entirety.
Clifford Chance
