Judgment_paragraph 83 · Société nouvelle des couleurs zinciques SA (SNCZ) v Commission of the European Communities (T-52/02)

83In any event, for an infringement of the competition rules to be regarded as having been committed deliberately, it is not necessary for the undertaking to have been aware that it was infringing those rules: it is sufficient that it could not have been unaware that the object of its conduct was the restriction of competition (Case T-143/89 Ferriere Nord v Commission [1995] ECR II-917, paragraph 41, and Joined Cases T-5/00 and T-6/00 Nederlandse Federatieve Vereniging voor de Groothandel op Elektrotechnisch Gebied v Commission [2003] ECR II-5761, paragraphs 396 and 397).