Sentenced for the first time in 2017, the subsidiary of the German automobile giant Volkswagen was dismissed in February by the Court of the European Union, established in Luxembourg.
"Scania has now appealed this judgment to the European Court of Justice," the manufacturer said in a statement.
The manufacturer based near Stockholm "is still contesting all the conclusions of the European Commission, confirmed by the General Court of the EU, and maintains that the company has (not) entered into a pan-European price agreement with other builders,” she says.
The griffin brand "has not acted to delay the introduction of engines that comply with European emissions legislation either", she adds.
Along with four other major manufacturers (Daimler, DAF, Iveco, MAN and Volvo Group) punished in 2016 by the European Commission with fines ranging from around 500 million up to one billion euros, Scania had been considered an "active member of a cartel".
Among the groups at fault, Scania (a 100% subsidiary of Volkswagen since 2015) is the only one to have contested the settlement procedure proposed by the Commission, a kind of amicable settlement providing for the payment of a fine in exchange for the discontinuance of proceedings.
In its February decision, the EU General Court recalled that three entities of the firm, including its German subsidiary, had been found guilty of having "infringed the rules of Union law prohibiting cartels".
The facts relate to the period 1997-2011.
At that time, "collusive contacts" at various levels of the company "were part of an overall plan aimed at achieving the single anti-competitive objective", namely "to limit competition in the medium-duty truck market and heavy" in Europe, according to European justice.
The five manufacturers involved represent 90% of the European market.
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