Judgment_paragraph 484 · Compagnie générale maritime and Others v Commission of the European Communities (T-86/95)

484Fourthly, it cannot be contested that, whilst it involves a very serious and classic type of infringement of the competition rules, namely a horizontal price-fixing agreement, the legal treatment that should be reserved for this type of agreement, particularly because of its close links with maritime transport which is the subject of a wholly specific and exceptional set of rules, was not at all straightforward and, in particular, raised complex questions of both an economic and a legal nature.