SCC heeft zogenoemde ‘Confirmations’ tussen een aantal groepsmaatschappijen en de moedermaatschappijen overgelegd. De ‘Confirmation’ tussen Siemens A.G. en haar groepsmaatschappijen luidt, voor zover hier relevant:
‘WHEREAS:
(A) On [datum, hof], the Siemens Affiliate and Siemens entered into (…) (the ASATR), and (…) (the AA);
(B) Persuant to the ASATR, the Siemens Affiliate assigned its Air Cargo Damages Claim to Siemens;
(C) On 19 December 2013, Siemens and the Cartel Compensation Foundation (the CCF) entered into (…) (the ADPA);
(D) Pursuant to the ADPA, Siemens assigned – on its own behalf, and also in the name and on behalf of the corporations, companies and entities identified in Schedule D to the ADPA (the Named Affiliates) – its own Air Cargo Damages Claim and the Air Cargo Damages Claims of the Named Affiliates to the CCF; (…)
(F) On 16 March 2015, Siemens and the CCF executed the Acknowledgement & Clarification (in respect of the scope of the assigned Air Cargo Damages Claim) (…) (the Scope Acknowledgement & Clarification);
(G) Pursuant to the Scope Acknowledgement & Clarification, Siemens – on its own behalf, and also in the name and on behalf of the Named Affiliates – and the CCF acknowledged and confirmed that the Air Cargo Damages Claim assigned to the CCF pursuant the ADPA includes any and all claims relating to any and all air cargo services:
(a) for routes all over the world, from any origin to any destination; and
(b) in all years in which the amounts to be paid for international air cargo services were increased, or damage was otherwise suffered by Siemens and/or the Named Affiliates, as a result of illegal and anticompetitive price-fixing, which for the avoidance of doubt in any event includes but is in no way limited to, any and all international air cargo services between 1 January 2000 and 31 December 2007 inclusive,
whether or not the subject of the decision of the European Commission announced on 9 November 2010 in a press release with reference IP/10/1487, and that the operation of the ADPA in this manner was intended and meant by Siemens and the CCF at the time when the ADPA was originally made between the Siemens and the CCF;
HEREBY ACKNOWLEDGE AND CONFIRM:
1. that the Air Cargo Damages Claim assigned by the Siemens Affiliate to Siemens pursuant to the ASATR includes any and all claims relating to any and all air cargo services:
(a) for routes all over the world, from any origin to any destination; and
(b) in all years in which the amounts to be paid for international air cargo services were increased, or damage was otherwise suffered by the Siemens Affiliate, as a result of illegal and anticompetitive price-fixing, which for the avoidance of doubt in any event includes but is in no way limited to, any and all international air cargo services between 1 January 2000 and 31 December 2007 inclusive,
whether or not the subject of the decision of the European Commission announced on 9 November 2010 in a press release with reference IP/10/1487;
2 that the operation of the ASATR in this manner was intended and meant by the Siemens Affiliate and Siemens at the time when the ASATR was originally made between the Siemens Affiliate and Siemens;
TO THE EXTENT NECESSARY HEREBY ACKNOWLEDGE AND CONFIRM:
3 that Siemens was – as per the date of the ADPA – pursuant to the AA authorised to assign the Air Cargo Damages Claim of the Siemens Affiliate to the CCF by executing the ADPA also in the name and on behalf of the Siemens Affiliate;
4 that Siemens was – as per the date of the Scope Acknowledgement & Clarification – pursuant to the AA authorised to acknowledge and confirm the scope of the Air Cargo Damages Claim of the Siemens Affiliate as assigned to the CCF pursuant to the ADPA, by executing the Scope Acknowledgement & Clarification also in the name and on behalf of the Siemens Affiliate;
TO THE EXTENT NECESSARY HEREBY RATIFY AND CONFIRM:
5 whatever Siemens has done in its capacity as agent under the AA, including, but not limited to:
(i) executing the ADPA also in the name and on behalf of the Siemens Affiliate;
(ii) assigning the Air Cargo Damages Claim of the Siemens Affiliate to the CCF pursuant to the ADPA;
(iii) empowering the CCF to resolve the Air Cargo Damages Claim of the Siemens Affiliate in its own name for the account of the Siemens Affiliate pursuant to, and in accordance with, clause 2.3 of the ADPA, which empowerment is governed by the laws of the Netherlands; (…)
(v) executing the Scope Acknowledgement & Clarification also in the name and on behalf of the Siemens Affiliate; and
(vi) acknowledging and confirming the scope of the Air Cargo Damages Claim of the Siemens Affiliate as assigned to the CCF pursuant to the ADPA, in accordance with the Scope Acknowledgement & Clarification.’