Article 5
This Decision is addressed to: - Solvay et Cie SA, rue du Prince Albert 33, B-1050 Brussels; - Imperial Chemical Industries plc, Millbank, UK-London SW1P 3JF. This Decision is enforceable pursuant to Article 192 of the EEC Treaty. Done at Brussels, 19 December 1990. For the Commission Leon BRITTAN Vice-President (1) OJ No 13, 21. 2. 1962, p. 204/62. (2) OJ No 127, 20. 8. 1963, p. 2268/63. (1) OJ N° L 206, 2. 8. 1984, p. 15. (2) OJ N° L 311, 29. 11. 1984, p. 26. (3) In the published version of the Decision, some information has hereinafter been omitted, pursuant to the provisions of Article 21 of Regulation N° 17 concerning non-disclosure of business secrets. (4) OJ N° L 283, 16. 10. 1990, p. 38. (5) See page 54 of this Official Journal. (1) Emphasis added. (1) 'SAP` = ICI Soda Ash Products. (1) OJ N° L 35, 7. 2. 1985, p. 1. (1) See A. Cournot, Researches into the Mathematical Principles of the Theory of Wealth (1938). (2) J. Von Neumann and O. Morgenstern, Theory of Games and Economic Behaviour (1944). (1) [1976] ECR 811. (2) [1972] ECR 619. (3) [1975] ECR 1663. (1) For the purposes of the present case, the Commission does not consider the Solvay/ICI 'PFR` arrangements as constituing per se infringements of Article 85: rather they are indicative of (a) the close commercial relationship between the two producers in the soda-ash field, and (b) a shared concern to maintain the status quo, and are part and parcel of a wider concertation to eliminate competition between them: (e.g. Suiker Unie v. Commission, at recital 182; Joined Cases 29 and 30/83 Cram and Rheinzink v. Commission [1984] ECR 1679. (1) OJ N° L 195, 7. 8. 1969, p. 11. (2) OJ N° L 230, 18. 8. 1986, p. 1. (3) OJ N° L 74, 17. 3. 1989, p. 1. (4) OJ N° L 74, 17. 3. 1989, p. 21.