90/45/EEC: Commission Decision of 19 December 1989 relating to a proceeding under Article 85 of the EEC Treaty (IV/32.414 - Sugar beet) (Only the French and Dutch texts are authentic)

• Articles: 3

Article 1

The clause contained in the inter-trade agreements concluded between the CBB and the SGFSB on 9 June 1981, 23 December 1985 and 17 March 1987 which granted priority to beet grown in Belgium for supplies intended for sugar production by Belgian sugar manufac turers within their maximum quotas and which was ended on 29 September 1989 constituted an infringement of Article 85 (1) of the EEC Treaty.

Article 2

The exclusion of the Bavay-Maubeuge growers who had been regularly supplying R.T. for several years in allocating deliveries to R.T. for production within its maximum quota, an exclusion which was implemented on the basis of an agreement concluded in 1985 between the CBB and R.T. and whose effects persisted up to June 1989, constituted an infringement of Article 85 (1) of the EEC Treaty.

Article 3

This Decision is addressed to the Confédération des Betteraviers Belges, the Société Générale des Fabricants de Sucre de Belgique and the Raffinerie Tirlemontoise SA.

Done at Brussels, 19 December 1989.

For the Commission

Leon BRITTAN

Vice-President

(1) OJ No 30, 20. 4. 1962, p. 993/62.