Case C-491/24, AGCM: Order of the Court (Tenth Chamber) of 18 December 2025 (request for a preliminary ruling from the Consiglio di Stato – Italy) – Autorità Garante della Concorrenza e del Mercato (AGCM) v Amazon Italia Services Srl, Amazon.com Inc., Amazon Services Europe Sàrl, Amazon Europe Core Sàrl, Amazon EU Sàrl, Apple Inc., Apple Distribution International Ltd, Apple Italia Srl, Digitech di FC Srl, I.T. Store (Reference for a preliminary ruling – Article 99 of the Rules of Procedure of the Court of Justice – Questions the answer to which may be clearly deduced from the Court’s existing case-law – Competition – Article 101 TFEU – Prohibition of agreements, decisions and concerted practices – Empowering national competition authorities to enforce the rules on competition – Directive (EU) 2019/1 – Independence of national competition authorities – Article 4(5) – Setting priorities for the proceedings for the enforcement of Articles 101 and 102 TFEU – Fines on undertakings and associations of undertakings – Article 13 – Procedures for infringement of the rules of competition law – Compliance with a reasonable time limit – National legislation requiring the national authority to commence the inter partes investigation stage of the procedure within a time limit of 90 days, starting from the moment it has knowledge of the infringement – Annulment of the decision of that authority in the event of failure to comply with that time limit – Revocation of the power to penalise the practice concerned – Principle of effectiveness – Rights of defence of undertakings)