Judgment_paragraph 126 · Alliance One International, Inc., formerly Standard Commercial Corp. and Others v European Commission (T-24/05)

126It is clear from settled case-law that the conduct of a subsidiary may be attributed to the parent company in particular where that subsidiary, despite having a separate legal personality, does not decide independently upon its own conduct on the market, but carries out, in all material respects, the instructions given to it by the parent company (Imperial Chemical Industries v Commission, paragraph 27 above, paragraphs 132 and 133; Case 52/69 Geigy v Commission [1972] ECR 787, paragraph 44; and Case 6/72 Europemballage and Continental Can v Commission [1973] ECR 215, paragraph 15), regard being had in particular to the economic, organisational and legal links between those two legal entities (see, by analogy, Dansk Rørindustri and Others v Commission, paragraph 122 above, paragraph 117, and ETI and Others, paragraph 124 above, paragraph 49).

Alliance One International, Inc., formerly Standard Commercial Corp. and Others v European Commission (T-24/05)

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