On
The court refused to rebut the presumption that a parent company exercises decisive influence over its subsidiaries and rejected in particular the following arguments:
- That the subsidiary had a structure that allowed it to operate autonomously in the market
- That the parent company was a financial holding company, controlling several different companies and operating in several business sectors, excluding the possibility of exercising decisive influence over all its subsidiaries
- That monthly reporting by the subsidiaries to the parent company was only for informative and accounting purposes
Moreover, the
The Court decision is available here: C‑611/18 (
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