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The European Court of Justice's (ECJ) ruling in Elf Aquitaine (Case C-52109) of 29 September 2011 confirms that parent companies are able to rebut the presumption of their liability for anti-competitive behaviour by their subsidiaries and that the Commission needs to provide adequate reasons where it decides that the facts or legal arguments relied on by the parent company are not sufficient to rebut the presumption
