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"Mr Evans raised the question of trade supplies. I agree that the treatment of industrial supply agreements needs to be elaborated in the guidelines. This will be done in the chapter on production agreements.
Crisis cartels, Mr Berenguer, aim directly at reducing output and raising prices; they therefore always have a restrictive effect on competition. That does not exclude the possibility of such cartels being exempt under Article 81(3). It would, however, only be possible after an individual examination of the case and the merits of the agreement. That is why it would be inappropriate to include these agreements in the guidelines.
Finally, how does this all fit into the broader modernisation effort? First of all I can confirm to Mr Evans that I expect the Commission to be able to adopt a proposal for a regulation to reform Regulation 17 of 1962 before the end of this month. That reform involves the elimination of the notification system.
This, however, Mr Karas, should not reduce the legal certainty for companies. In order to ensure this, the Commission is clarifying its present substantive rules. We have already done so for distribution – vertical agreements – and we are now doing it for horizontal agreements. Our block exemption regulations and notices will give companies more certainty on the contents of our rules and in self-assessing their agreements in the spirit of an overall modernisation effort. This cannot be considered a renationalisation of competition policy but, more than in the past, it will benefit from the cooperation of the national in the cooperation of the national competition authorities and the national courts in the general effort of applying EC competition rules."@en1
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