慕尼黑法院为卡车制造商的客户们因长期价格操纵而遭受的数十亿欧元损失索赔设定了重要基准。
A Munich court has set a crucial benchmark for the billions of euros in damages being sought by truckmakers’ customers who were overcharged as a result of a long-running price-fixing cartel.
法官裁定，大众汽车旗下的MAN公司需向原告偿还1997年至2009年间购买重型卡车净价的5%，中型卡车净价的1%；戴姆勒卡车控股公司则需支付重型卡车净价的3.7%，中型卡车（常用于超市配送）净价的4.2%。法院在周三发布的电子邮件声明中公布了这一裁决。
Judges ruled that Volkswagen AG’s MAN must reimburse plaintiffs 5% of the net price they paid for heavy-duty trucks and 1% for medium-duty trucks from 1997-2009. Daimler Truck Holding AG must pay 3.7% for heavy trucks bought and 4.2% for medium-sized trucks that often serve as supermarket delivery vehicles, the court said in an emailed statement on Wednesday.
多年来，这些索赔案一直悬而未决，未能引起广泛关注，部分原因是案件分散在多个司法管辖区。
The claims have hung over Europe’s truck industry for years while drawing relatively little wider attention, in part because they were scattered across hundreds of cases in multiple jurisdictions.
目前已有大量案件在慕尼黑集中审理，其中仅一个原告团体就索赔约20亿欧元（22.5亿美元）。
Many have been consolidated in Munich, where one plaintiff group alone filed for about €2 billion ($2.25 billion).
这些案件备受关注，因为慕尼黑法院确定的赔偿金额可能会成为整个行业诉讼的参考标准。这些诉讼源于欧盟对卡车行业的卡特尔调查。
The cases have been closely watched because the damages level set in Munich is likely to become a benchmark across the wider litigation. The suits followed a European Union cartel probe into the industry.
在MAN公司揭发卡特尔行为后，戴姆勒、帕卡公司的DAF、依维柯集团和沃尔沃于2016年与欧盟监管机构达成和解，同意支付29.3亿欧元作为1997年至2011年间的价格操纵罚款。
After MAN blew the whistle on the cartel, Daimler, Paccar Inc.’s DAF, Iveco Group NV and Volvo settled with Brussels regulators in 2016, agreeing to pay €2.93 billion for fixing prices between 1997 and 2011.
斯堪尼亚公司（现隶属于大众汽车的Traton集团）虽提出异议但未获成功，一年后被罚款8.805亿欧元。
Scania AB — now also part of Volkswagen’s truck unit Traton SE — contested the allegations unsuccessfully and was fined €880.5 million a year later.
本周审理的案件包括LG München 37 O 6594/17和37 O 2959/18。
Wednesday’s cases are: LG München, 37 O 6594/17 and 37 O 2959/18.