General Court upholds Commission decision considering parent companies of subsidiary involved in cartel infringements liable for payment of fine.

By decision of May 2006 the Commission imposed fines totalling €388.13 million on a number of companies for their participation in a cartel on the market for hydrogen peroxide and sodium perborate. Amongst the companies penalised were Arkema France SA and its parent companies, Elf Aquitaine SA and Total SA.