ARBED SA avait soutenu devant le Tribunal que la Commission, après transmission à la société fille Trade ARBED des griefs qui lui étaient imputés, a pris la décision à l'encontre de ARBED SA, en tant que société mère sans l'informer au préalable ni de son intention ni de ses raisons et sans lui permettre de faire connaître son point de vue.
Before the Court of First Instance, ARBED SA had claimed that, after having sent its subsidiary TradeARBED a statement of objections which were attributed to that subsidiary, the Commission then took the decision against ARBED SA as the parent company, without first informing it of its intention or its reasoning and without giving it an opportunity to make known its point of view.