CELEX: 31972D0153
Language: en
Date: 1972-03-22 00:00:00
Title: Commission Decision of 22 March 1972 extending the authorization granted to the wholesale steel dealers grouped within the Stahlring Company and Stahlring GmbH, Stahleinkaufsgesellschaft to effect joint buying of rolled steel

Official Journal of the European Communities                                      61
  11.4.72                            Official Journal of the European Communities                           No L 85 / 17
                                             COMMISSION DECISION
                                                   of 22 March 1972
               extending the authorization granted to the wholesale steel dealers grouped within the
               Stahlring Company and Stahlring GmbH, Stahleinkaufsgesellchaft to effect joint buying
                                                     of rolled steel
                                           (Only the German text is authentic^
                                                      (72/ 153/ECSC)
 THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN                                 members and which approves the report of the board
 COMMUNITIES,                                                   of management of Stahlring GmbH ; the obligation
                                                                on members of Stahlring GbR to order in each half
 Having regard to the Treaty establishing the Euro­             year 50 % of the quantity they are committed to buy
 pean Coal and Steel Community, and in particular               is cancelled ;
 Article 65 thereof;
                                                                Whereas, therefore, the amended statutes of Stahl­
 Having regard to Decision No 15 / 671 of the High              ring GbR do not contain any amendment relevant to
 Authority of the European Coal and Steel Com­                  an assessment of the conditions of competition;
 munity of 14 June 1967 authorizing the joint buying            whereas Stahlring GbR now has 41 members;
 of rolled steel by the wholesale steel dealers grouped
                                                                Whereas no amendment has been made to the statu­
 within the Stahlring Company and Stahlring GmbH
 Stahleinkaufsgesellschaft;                                     tes of Stahlring GmbH apart from an increase in the
                                                                capital of the company from DM 200 000 to DM
 Having regard to the application made by Stahlring             1 000 000 ;
 GmbH, Stahleinkaufsgesellschaft, Dusseldorf, on 11            Whereas the increase in the number of members of
 November 1971 ;
                                                                Stahlring GbR since 1967 has not led to the dealers
 Whereas pursuant to Article 65 (2) the High Au­               concerned acquiring a market position in the buying
thority by Decision No 15 /67 of 14 June 1967 gave             and selling of rolled steel exceeding in magnitude
authorization until 31 December 1971 to the whole­             that of other dealers on the German market;
sale steel dealers grouped within the civil law com­
pany Stahlring (Stahlring GbR) and Stahlring GmbH              Whereas it appears from the report submitted to the
                                                               Commission in accordance with Article 2 of Decision
Stahleinkaufsgesellschaft ( Stahlring GmbH) to effect
the joint buying of rolled steel;                              No 15 / 67 that joint buying has in fact led to a sub­
                                                               stantial improvement in distribution; whereas the
                                                               Commission considers therefore that it can hence­
Whereas the parties concerned have by letter of 11
                                                               forth dispense with the condition laid down in Ar­
November 1971 stated that they wished to extend the
                                                               ticle 2 of the Decision No 15 /67 ;
existing joint buying arrangement for an indefinite
period on the basis of the amended statutes of Stahl­
ring GbR and have requested extension of the au­               Whereas, in the circumstances, the grounds on which
thorization accordingly;                                       the High Authority authorized the agreements be­
                                                               tween the dealers concerned from 20 June 1967 to 31
                                                               December 1971 are still valid as also the grounds on
Whereas the amendments to the statutes of Stahlring
                                                               the basis of which conditions were imposed on those
GbR cover the following main points : the board of             dealers, save the condition laid down in Article 2 of
management of Stahlring GmbH must whenever pos­                Decision No 15 /67;
sible include a member from each of the three re­
gions; it is the general meeting of members of Stahl­          Whereas, therefore, those agreements continue to ful­
ring GbR which decides on the admission of new                 fil the conditions for their authorization laid down in
members by a 75 % majority of all the votes of the             Article 65 (2) of the Treaty, and may be authorized,
1 OJ No 127, 27.6.1967, p. 2517/67.                            HAS ADOPTED THIS DECISION :
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                        Article 1                            1972 and is addressed to Stahlring GmbH, Stahlein­
The period of validity of Decision No 15/67 author­          kaufsgesellschaft, Düsseldorf.
izing the joint buying of rolled steel by wholesale
steel dealers, listed in the Annex to this Decision, is      Done at Brussels, 22 March 1972 .
hereby extended until 31 December 1975 .
                                                                              For the Commission
                        Article 2                                                 The President
This Decision shall enter into force as from 1 January                          S. L. MANSHOLT
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                                          ANNEX
                       Members of Stahlring GbR as of 1 January 1972
 1 . C. W. Adam und Sohn GmbH, Oker/Harz
 2.  P. H. Brauns, Hannover
 3. Wilh. Bredemeier KG, Braunschweig
 4.  Louis Eilers & Co., Hannover-Herrenhausen
 5.  C. Hempelmann GmbH , Hildesheim
 6.  Eirch Hoselmann, Hannover
 7.  Heinrich Hottenrott, Goslar
 8.  W. Logemann KG, Oldenburg
 9.  Seiler & Schläfke GmbH , Hannover-Wülfel
10.  August Schroeder, Hannover
11 . F. W. Schwemann , Hildesheim
12.  Schwemann & Stücke KG , Hannover
13 . Friedr. Vater & Co., Braunschweig
14.  Vetter & Co., Bremerhaven
15. Walzstahlhandel Nord, Erich Frei KG, Braunschweig
16. Wullbrandt & Seele, Braunschweig
17. Hollinde & Boudon KG , Dortmund-Aplerbeck
18 . Wilhelm Josten Söhne, Neuss
19. August Kirbert, Wuppertal-Elberfeld
20. Montan-Handelsges . Richter & Co., Düsseldorf
21 . Carl Pohle, Rheydt
22.  Rheineisen GmbH, Düsseldorf
23 . J. Wiliems & Co., Düsseldorf-Oberkassel
24. Leopold Hugo Zell, Wuppertal-Barmen
25 . Louis Coers KG, Lünen
26.  Johann Becker GmbH, Saarbrücken
27.  Wilhelm Gauer, Kitzingen
28.  Gebrüder Glatt, Freiburg
29.  Konrad Haller KG, Stuttgart-Feuerbach
30.  E. Hochapfel GmbH, Saarbrücken
31 . Chr. Kautz Nachf. KG, Saarbrücken
32 . Ulrich Adam Knapp, Reutlingen
33 . Lindemann & Frankfurth, Kassel-B
34 . Gebr. Lotter KG, Ludwigsburg
35 . Louis Marburg & Söhne GmbH, Frankfurt/M
36 . Gebr. Reinhard, Würzburg
37 . Saarbrücker Eisenhandelsges. mbH, Saarbrücken
38.  Gustav Schedler, Heilbronn
39.  C. Schrade KG , Neckarsulm
40. Eisen-Stähle KG, Nürnberg
41 . Nagel & Merz, Saarbrücken