85/383/EEC: Commission Decision of 10 July 1985 relating to a proceeding under Article 2 of Council Regulation (EEC) No 1017/68 applying rules of competition to transport by rail, road and inland waterway (IV/31.029 - French inland waterway charter traffic: EATE levy) (Only the French text is authentic)

• CELEX: Regulation (EEC) No 1017/68
• Articles: 3

Article 1

The inter-association agreement signed on 13 June 1983 between the French Association of Self-Employed Waterway Carriers (Association Nationale des Travailleurs Indépendants de la Batellerie) and the French Federation of Inland Waterway Forwarding Agents (Chambre Syndicale Nationale des Courtiers de fret fluviaux) constitutes an infringement of Article 2 of Council Regulation (EEC) No 1017/68 in so far as it impairs the normal operation of competition. The main provisions concerned are the second indent of clause 1, which provides for the imposition of an 'EATE levy' on charters for destinations abroad, and the first sentence of clause 4, which allows a discretion not to refund the levy to non-members of EATE.

Article 2

The agreement referred to in Article 1 is hereby refused exemption under Article 5 of Regulation (EEC) No 1017/68.

Article 3

This Decision is addressed to:

- the Association Nationale des Travailleurs Indépendants de la Batellerie (ANTIB), 16 Boulevard Vincent Auriol, 75013 Paris, France, and

- the Chambre Syndicale Nationale des Courtiers de fret fluviaux, 32 rue de Londres, 75009 Paris, France.

Done at Brussels, 10 July 1985.

For the Commission

Peter SUTHERLAND

Member of the Commission

(1) OJ No L 175, 23. 7. 1968, p. 1.

(2) OJ No L 209, 21. 8. 1969, p. 11.

(1) OJ No L 237, 29. 8. 1974, p. 16.

(2) [1975] ECR 563 and 583.

(3) OJ No L 167, 15. 6. 1982, p. 39.

(4) [1966] ECR 299.

(1) [1974] ECR 359.