Judgment_paragraph 26 · Total Marketing Services SA v European Commission (C-634/13 P)

26It is settled case-law that in most cases the existence of an anti-competitive practice or agreement must be inferred from a number of coincidences and indicia which, taken together, may, in the absence of another plausible explanation, constitute evidence of an infringement of the competition rules (see judgments in Aalborg Portland and Others v Commission, C‑204/00 P, C‑205/00 P, C‑211/00 P, C‑213/00 P, C‑217/00 P and C‑219/00 P, EU:C:2004:6, paragraph 57, and in Commission v Verhuizingen Coppens, C‑441/11 P, EU:C:2012:778, paragraph 70).