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The appellants submit that, first, the General Court distorted, in paragraph 87 of the judgment under appeal, the requests for measures of inquiry set out in point 117 of the application and in point 24 of the reply, as well as their submissions at the hearing. Second, in paragraph 119 of that judgment, the General Court is said to have distorted certain passages of the decision at issue concerning alleged discussions relating to increasing the prices of taps and fittings within the FSKI. Third, the appellants claim that, in paragraph 130 of that judgment, the General Court distorted recital 852 of the decision at issue with regard to the appellants’ alleged membership of several cross-product associations. Fourth, they allege that, in paragraphs 152 to 155 of the judgment under appeal, the General Court distorted certain passages of the statement of objections of 26 March 2007 in connection with the complaint of regular price agreements within the framework of the IFS. Fifth, the appellants claim that, in paragraph 193 of that judgment, the General Court distorted their statement concerning the first plea in the application. Sixth, it is argued that, in paragraph 208 of that judgment, the General Court distorted the request for measures of inquiry set out in point 46 of the application, which concerned the examination of the witnesses Schinle and Kook in connection with the IFS meeting of 5 October 2000. Seventh, the appellants allege that, in paragraph 213 of the judgment under appeal, the General Court distorted the clear sense of the evidence and infringed the principles of the taking of evidence in so far as concerns the content of the notes which the Hansgrohe employee, Mr Schinle, made of the IFS meeting of 5 October 2000. Eighth, the appellants claim that, in paragraph 218 of that judgment, the General Court distorted the clear sense of the evidence relating to the IFS meeting of 20 November 2002 and disregarded the requests for measures of inquiry in point 27 of the reply. Ninth, the appellants submit that, in paragraph 230 of the judgment under appeal, the General Court distorted the requests for measures of inquiry contained in points 57, 59 and 61 of the application as well as appellants’ arguments concerning price increases ‘on occasions connected to specific events’. Tenth, they claim that, in paragraphs 277 to 282 of that judgment, the General Court distorted the evidence, the appellants’ arguments and the request for measures of inquiry set out in point 90 of the application in connection with the FSKI meetings of 7 and 8 July 2000. Eleventh, the appellants submit that, in paragraph 299 et seq. of that judgment, the General Court distorted (i) the content of the minutes of the FSKI meeting of 17 January 2003 relating to the alleged concerted action concerning road tolls and (ii) the appellants’ request for measures of inquiry in point 101 of the application. Twelfth, they allege that, in paragraph 312 et seq. of the judgment under appeal, the General Court distorted the decision at issue in relation to the probative value of the evidence relating to the IFS meeting of 24 April 2001 and to the FSKI meetings of 23 January and 5 July 2002. Thirteenth, they submit that, in paragraph 321 of that judgment, the General Court distorted the appellants’ statement in point 110 of the application and point 43 of the reply, by holding, incorrectly, that the appellants had raised no argument relating to the VCG meeting on 30 October 2001. Fourteenth, it is alleged that, in paragraph 324 of that judgment, the General Court distorted recital 572 et seq. of the decision at issue in connection with the alleged accusation of price concertation in relation to 2005 within the AFICS.