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Opinion of the Advisory Committee on restrictive practices and dominant positions given at its 414th meeting on 4 September 2006 concerning a draft decision relating to Case COMP/F/38.456 — Bitumen (The Netherlands)
Date: 2006-09-04
Institutions: Advisory Committee on Restrictive Practices and Dominant Positions
Subjects: Netherlands, cartel, petroleum product, price agreement, road building, unlawful agreement

C 176/6

EN

Official Journal of the European Union

28.7.2007

Opinion of the Advisory Committee on restrictive practices and dominant positions given at its
414th meeting on 4 September 2006 concerning a draft decision relating to Case COMP/F/38.456 —
Bitumen (The Netherlands)

(2007/C 176/05)

1. The Advisory Committee agrees with the European Commission assessment of the facts as an agreement

and/or concerted practice within the meaning of Article 81 of the Treaty.

2. The Advisory Committee agrees with the European Commission assessment of the product and the

geographic area affected by the cartel in the draft decision.

3. The Advisory Committee agrees in particular with the assessment that the entire system of preparatory
and joint meetings, with the ensuing agreements between the group of bitumen suppliers and the group
of road builders on gross prices and rebates for road pavement bitumen in the Netherlands forms part of
a single overall scheme and therefore constitutes a single infringement of Article 81 of the Treaty of both
bitumen suppliers and road builders.

4. The Advisory Committee agrees with the European Commission draft decision as regards the addressees
of the decision, specifically with reference to imputation of liability to parent companies of the groups
concerned and the proposal to close the proceeding against Volker Wesssels Stevin Infra BV and
Wegenbouwmaatschappij J. Heijmans BV.

5. The Advisory Committee agrees that Shell, within the group of bitumen suppliers, and KWS, within the
group of the bitumen purchasers, bear a special responsibility for their role in instigating and leading the
cartel.

6. The Advisory Committee agrees with the European Commission as regards the assessment of the applica-
tions made under the 2002 Leniency Notice, including that Wintershall AG should not be covered by the
immunity application of BP.

7. The Advisory Committee agrees to close the proceedings against ExxonMobil.

8. The Advisory Committee recommends the publication of its opinion in the Official Journal of the European

Union.

9. The Advisory Committee asks the Commission to take into account all the other points raised during the

discussion.
Commission Regulation (EC) No 1317/2006 of 4 September 2006 establishing the standard import values for determining the entry price of certain fruit and vegetables
Date: 2006-09-04
Institutions: European Commission
Subjects: agri-monetary policy, citrus fruit, fruit vegetable, grape, import price, pip fruit, stone fruit

5.9.2006

EN

Official Journal of the European Union

L 242/3

COMMISSION REGULATION (EC) No 1317/2006

of 4 September 2006

establishing the standard import values for determining the entry price of certain fruit and
vegetables

THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES,

Having regard to the Treaty
Community,

establishing the European

Having regard to Commission Regulation (EC) No 3223/94 of
21 December 1994 on detailed rules for the application of the
fruit and vegetables (1), and in
import arrangements
particular Article 4(1) thereof,

for

Whereas:

standard values for imports from third countries,
in
respect of the products and periods stipulated in the
Annex thereto.

(2)

In compliance with the above criteria,
the standard
import values must be fixed at the levels set out in the
Annex to this Regulation,

HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION:

Article 1

The standard import values referred to in Article 4 of Regu-
lation (EC) No 3223/94 shall be fixed as indicated in the Annex
hereto.

(1)

Regulation (EC) No 3223/94 lays down, pursuant to the
outcome of the Uruguay Round multilateral trade nego-
tiations, the criteria whereby the Commission fixes the

Article 2

This Regulation shall enter into force on 5 September 2006.

This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member States.

Done at Brussels, 4 September 2006.

For the Commission

Jean-Luc DEMARTY
Director-General for Agriculture and
Rural Development

(1) OJ L 337, 24.12.1994, p. 66. Regulation as last amended by Regu-

lation (EC) No 386/2005 (OJ L 62, 9.3.2005, p. 3).

L 242/4

EN

Official Journal of the European Union

5.9.2006

to Commission Regulation of 4 September 2006 establishing the standard import values for determining the
entry price of certain fruit and vegetables

ANNEX

CN code

0702 00 00

0707 00 05

0709 90 70

0805 50 10

0806 10 10

0808 10 80

0808 20 50

0809 30 10, 0809 30 90

0809 40 05

Third country code (1)

Standard import value

(EUR/100 kg)

052
999

052
999

052
999

388
524
528
999

052
220
400
624
999

388
400
508
512
528
720
800
804
999

052
388
720
999

052
096
999

052
066
098
624
999

87,3
87,3

79,0
79,0

74,2
74,2

68,2
49,5
54,2
57,3

79,6
178,5
181,8
120,1
140,0

85,8
93,2
87,9
94,9
59,3
81,1
173,9
108,3
98,1

121,7
91,7
88,3
100,6

123,8
12,8
68,3

92,3
46,7
41,6
150,6
82,8

(1) Country nomenclature as fixed by Commission Regulation (EC) No 750/2005 (OJ L 126, 19.5.2005, p. 12). Code ‘999’ stands for ‘of

other origin’.