EUR-Lex - 31973D0232 - EN

Article 1

The ' Agreement regulating the sale on the Belgian market of instantaneous gas water-heaters and bath-heaters ' concluded between the undertakings :

( i ) SPRL Le Renova , Forest

( ii ) SA Contigea , Brussels

( iii ) SNCR Joski et Fils , Ghent

( iv ) SA Etablissements Guillaume Prist , Antwerp

( v ) SAB Chaffoteaux et Maury , Brussels

providing for standard discounts and other conditions of sale and after-sales service , and an allowance on the annual turnover of customers on purchases from all suppliers , whether members of the Agreement or not , constitutes , at least for the period from 29 December 1965 to 31 December 1970 , a breach of Article 85 ( 1 ) of the Treaty establishing the European Economic Community .

Article 2

The request for exemption pursuant to Article 85 ( 3 ) , submitted by the undertakings referred to in Article 1 , in respect of the Agreement referred to in Article 1 , is refused .

Article 3

This Decision is addressed to the undertakings referred to in Article 1 .

Done at Brussels , 3 July 1973 .

For the Commission

The President

François-Xavier ORTOL

( 1 ) OJ No 13 , 21 . 2 . 1962 , p. 204/62 .

( 2 ) OJ No 127 , 20 . 8 . 1963 , p. 2268/63 .