80/257/ECSC: Commission Decision of 8 February 1980 relating to a proceeding under Article 65 of the ECSC Treaty in respect of a price-fixing system for the sale of rolled steel products ex stock by stock holders on the German market (Only the German text is authentic)

• Articles: 4

Article 1

It is hereby declared that the association of undertakings Bundesverband Deutscher Stahlhandel e.V. has continually contravened Article 65 (1) of the ECSC Treaty: (a) from 1970 to 1972, in that it prepared uniform ex-stock price lists of rolled steel products and distributed them among its member firms;

(b) from 1973 up to the present time, in that it drew up and sent to interested members model calculations, complete with specific values for each cost component, and, furthermore, in that it informed its members of revised ex-stock price lists drawn up by individual dealers and circulated them to the other members.

Article 2

The association of undertakings concerned is required to terminate the infringements declared in Article 1 (b) forthwith.

Article 3

The association of undertakings concerned is required to bring the complete text of this Decision to the attention of all its members.

Article 4

This Decision is addressed to the association of undertakings Bundesverband Deutscher Stahlhandel e.V., Graf-Adolf-Platz 12, D-4000 Düsseldorf.

Done at Brussels, 8 February 1980.

For the Commission

Raymond VOUEL

Member of the Commission