Article 1
Imperial Chemical Industries plc (ICI) infringed Article 86 of the EEC Treaty (now Article 82 of the EC Treaty) from about 1983 until at least the end of 1989 by a course of conduct aimed at excluding or severely limiting competition and consisting of: (a) granting substantial rebates and other financial inducements referable to marginal tonnage in order to ensure that customers buy all or most of their requirements from ICI; (b) securing the agreement of customers to buy the whole or substantially the whole of their requirements from ICI and/or to restrict their purchases of competitive material to a specified tonnage; (c) in one case at least making the granting of rebates and other financial benefits dependent upon the customers agreeing to buy the whole of its requirements from ICI.