87Fifth, the fact, to which the applicant in Case T‑146/07 drew attention, that certain employees had disobeyed UTC’s instructions, in particular by concealing their behaviour from their superiors and UTC, does not reverse the presumption that the subsidiaries concerned were not autonomous. In that regard, the distinction drawn by UTC between, on the one hand, the Otis subsidiaries and, on the other, the employees of those subsidiaries, who are said to have committed the infringements whilst concealing their behaviour from their superiors and UTC, is artificial. Those employees are, in relation to the Otis subsidiaries which employ them, in a relationship characterised by the fact that they work for and under the management of each of them and are, throughout the term of that relationship, integrated into those undertakings, thereby forming with each of them an economic unit (see, to that effect, Joined Cases 40/73 to 48/73, 50/73, 54/73 to 56/73, 111/73, 113/73 and 114/73 Suiker Unie and Others v Commission [1975] ECR 1663, paragraph 539, and Case C‑22/98 Becu and Others [1999] ECR I‑5665, paragraph 26).
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