Intel Corporation v Commission (Competition - Abuse of dominant position - Microprocessors market - Judgment)

( Competition - Abuse of dominant position - Microprocessors market - Decision finding an infringement of Article 102 TFEU and Article 54 of the EEA Agreement - 'Naked' restrictions - Consequences of the annulment in part of an earlier decision - Nature of the infringement - Amount of the fine - 2006 Guidelines on the method of setting fines - Proportionality - Whether appropriate - Unlimited jurisdiction )

Intel Corporation Inc., established in Wilmington, Delaware (United States), represented by B. Meyring, J.-F. Bellis, lawyers, D. Beard and J. Williams, Barristers-at-Law,

European Commission, represented by F. Castillo de la Torre and P. Caro de Sousa, acting as Agents,

composed, at the time of the deliberations, of A. Marcoulli, President, J. Schwarcz and W. Valasidis (Rapporteur), Judges,

By its action under Articles 261 and 263 TFEU, the applicant, Intel Corporation Inc., seeks, first, the annulment of Commission Decision C(2023) 5914 final of 22 September 2023 relating to a proceeding under Article 102 of the Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union and Article 54 of the EEA Agreement (AT.37990 – Intel) ('the contested decision') and, second, the cancellation or reduction of the fine imposed on it in that decision.