Article 1
Scandinavian Airlines System ("SAS") and Maersk Air A/S ("Maersk Air") have infringed Article 81 of the Treaty and Article 53 of the EEA Agreement, by agreeing to: (a) an overall market-sharing agreement, according to which SAS would not operate on Maersk Air's routes out of Jutland and Maersk Air would not be able to launch services on routes from Copenhagen which SAS operates or wishes to operate, and an agreement to respect the share-out of the domestic routes; (b) specific market-sharing agreements regarding individual international routes, and in particular: (i) the agreement pursuant to which Maersk Air would cease flying between Copenhagen and Stockholm as from 28 March 1999 and obtain compensation for its withdrawal; (ii) in compensation for Maersk Air's withdrawal from the Copenhagen-Stockholm route, the agreement pursuant to which SAS would stop operating between Copenhagen and Venice at the end of March/beginning of April 1999 and Maersk Air would start operations on the route at the same moment; (iii) the agreement according to which SAS would stop flying on the Billund-Frankfurt route in January 1999.