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  1. On this point see M.-A. Sanson-Hermite:Droit Européen de la concurrence, cohérence économique, sécurité juridique, (1981); see also Fritz Rrttner: DieRechtssicherheit im Kartellrecht, WuW (1969), 65 et seq.;

  2. Case 13/61, [1962] ECR 45.

  3. So also Valentine Korah: EC CompetitionLaw and Policy, 5 Ed. 1994, 137.

  4. See case 10/69 “Portelongev. Smith Corona Marchant international”, [1969] ECR 309, and case 1 /70 “ParfumsMarcel Rochas Vertriebs-GmbH v Helmuth Bitsch” [1970] ECR 515.

  5. Case 10/69, see footnote 4, par 15.

  6. Case 10/69, see footnote 4, par. 16.

  7. Case 48/72, [1973] ECR 77.

  8. So Valentine Korah, op. cit., 138.

  9. Case C-39/96 “KoninklijkeVereeniging ter Bevordering van de Bleangen des Boekhandels v Free Record Shop BVand Free Record Shop Holding NV” [1997] ECR 1-2303.

  10. Third Report on Competition Policy, 1970, 19.

  11. See White Paper no. 12.

  12. White Paper, no. 10.

  13. ReineRechtslehre, 2nd ed., Wien 1960, 354 p. 259.

  14. See Jean Shapira, Georges Le Tallec, Jean-Bernard Blaise, Laurence Idot Droit desaffaires, 5th ed. Paris, 1999, Volume 1, 294.

  15. See White Paper no. 18.

  16. Fritz Rittner: op. cit., 125.

  17. See case 56/65,LTM v. MBU, [1966] ECR, 337; case 48/72, Brasserie deHaecht v. Wilkin-Janssen, [1973] ECR, 77; case 319/82Ciments et Bétonsv. Kerpen & Kerpen, [1983] ECR 4173.

  18. See Valentine Korah, op. cit., 64.

  19. Commission Regulation (EC) Nℴ 2790/1999 of 22 December 1999 on the application of Article 81 (3) of the Treaty to categories of vertical agreements and concerted practices, OJ L 336, of 29/12/1999, p. 21.

  20. Guidelines for vertical Agreements — OJ C 291 of 13/10/2000, p. 1–44.

  21. See Press Release IP/00/520; also White Paper no. 139.

  22. See Jean Shapira, Georges Le Tallec, Jean-Bernard Blaise, Laurence Idot, op. cit., 294.

  23. Ibidem, 295.

  24. Professor Korah thinks that where full disclosure has been made, negative clearance should be taken into account by national courts when deciding whether an agreement is invalid under article 81 (2), op. cit., 110.

  25. See Valentine Korah, op. tit., 110; Jean Shapira, Georges Le Tallec, Jean-Bernard Blaise, Laurence Idot, op. cit., 295.

  26. See Judgment of the CFI case T-138/89, NBVv. Commission, [1983] ECR, 11-2181.

  27. See cases 63/75, FonderiesRaubaix v. Fonderies Roux, , [1976] ECR 111; C-234/89,Delimitis v. Henninger BrÄu, [1991] ECR 1-935.

  28. Fritz Rittner: op. cit., 228.

  29. In the same sense Helmuth SchrötenVorbemerkung zu den Artikeln 85 bis 89, in von der GroebenThiesing Ehlermann (Eds.) Kommentar zum EU-/EG-Vertrag,Volume 2/1, Fifth edition, p. 145.

  30. Helmuth SchröterArtikel 85, in von der Groeben Thiesing Ehlermann (Eds.) Kommentar zum EU-/EG-Vertrag, Volume 2/1, Fifth edition, p.302.

  31. See also White Paper, no. 16.

  32. So admits even the White Paper, no. 40.

  33. White Paper, no. 34

  34. White Paper no. 35

  35. See, for instance Helmuth Schröter,Freistellung, in von der Groeben Thiesing Ehlermann (Eds.) Kommentar zum EU-/EG-Vertrag, Volume 2/1, Fifth edition, p.299.

  36. For the different classifications see Valentine Korah, op. cit., p. 290–291 and Helmuth Schröter,Freistellung, in von der Groeben Thiesing Ehlermann (Eds.) Kommentar zum EU-/EG-Vertrag, Volume 2/1, Fifth edition, p.299.

  37. ECJ, Case 99/79, SALancÔme and Lasparfrance Nederland BVv. Etos BVand Albert Heyn Supermart BV, [1980] ECR 2511.

  38. Fritz Rittner, op.cit chapter 14, no. 177.

  39. White Paper no. 34.

  40. Not surprisingly lawyers seem to have pointed it out while answering to the White Paper; see DG Competition, White Paper on the reform of Regulation 17 — Summary of the observations (29.02.2000), p. 8.

  41. See Arved Deringer, Stellungnahme zum Wei\buch der EuropÄischen Kommission, EuZW, Heft 1/2000, p.5, and Ernst-Joachim MestmÄcker, Versuch einer kartellpolitischen Wende in der EU, EuZW Heft 17/1999, p. 523.

  42. Arved Deringer. op. cit., p. 6.; inferred also Ernst-Joachim MestmÄcker, op. cit., p 524.

  43. Ernst-Jocahim MestmÄcker, op. cit., p. 526.

  44. See FAZ of 18 August 2000, p. 13.

  45. See the reasons why in L. Neville Brown & Tom Kennedy, TheCourt of Justice of theEuropean Communities, 4th ed. 1994, p. 308.

  46. See Arved Deringer, op. cit., p.7.

  47. See also Claus-Dieter Ehlermann,La modernisation de la politique antitrust de la CE une révolution juridique etculturelle, Revue du Droit de l’Union Européenne 1 /2000, p. 45 48 White Paper, no. 123.

  48. Article 2(1) Regulation 2790/1999 on Vertical agreements.

  49. White Paper no 78.

  50. A good example of where soft harmonisation has led to might be read in Herbert Sauter Antonio Pérez van Kappel,Study on the Policy of member States Competition Authorities Towards Horizontal Cooperation Agreements BetweenUndertakings, Acadmy of European Law, 1999.

  51. Claus-Dieter Ehlermann, op. cit., p. 50. no. 96.

  52. White Paper, no. 101 and seq.

  53. See especially Commission Notice; Guidelines on Vertical restraints of 24 Mai 2000, the Draft Guidelines on the Applicability oa Article 81 to horizontal co-operation, both available on the internet http://europa.eu.int/comm/dg04/lawenten. See also Commission notice on the definition of the relevant market for purposes of Community competition law, OJ C 372 of 9.12.1997, p. 5.

  54. See DG Competition, White Paper on the reform of Regulation 17 — Summary of the observations (29.02.2000), p. 14; on the rejection of these arguments see also Claus-Dieter Ehlermann, op. cit., p. 66, nℴ. 146. Moreover, if national mismanagement of Justice -or other administrationscould be invoked to stop implementation or further developing of EC law, we would still be having transitional periods for the applicability of articles 15 (ex 12) and 28 (ex 30) EC.

  55. White Paper, no. 107.

  56. See Doris Hildebrand,The Role of Economic Analysis in the EC Competition rules, 1998, p. 199, 209.

  57. Claus-Dieter Ehlermann,La modernisation de la politique antitrust de la CE: une révolution juridique et culturelle, Revue du Droit de l’Union Européenne 1 /2000, p. 66, nℴ. 146.

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