The European Commission welcomes judgment by the European Court of Justice (case C-76/06 P) dismissing the action by Britannia Alloys & Chemicals Ltd against the judgment of the European Court of First Instance of 29 November 2005 (case T-33/02). In the latter judgement, the Court of First Instance had dismissed the action brought by Britannia Alloys & Chemicals Ltd against the Commission decision of 11 December 2001 fining the company €3.37 million for participating in a cartel in zinc phosphate. The Court of Justice has now confirmed the original findings of the Court of First Instance, and dismissed the appeal in its entirety. The fines imposed by the Commission in the original decision have now been definitively upheld.

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