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"“The Commission believes that national systems of fixed book prices, based on agreements between companies, are compatible with Community competition rules if they do not significantly affect trade between Member States.” I also said: “As for systems based on regulations” – that is, the other possibility, not agreements but regulations – “each Member State is free to adopt regulations as long as they are compatible with the principle, sanctioned by the Treaty, of the free movement of goods”. Therefore, please, let us not depict the Commission as an institution which sets out to do things that in reality it has no intention of doing. I have repeatedly said that we will not oppose, nor can we oppose, fixed book price systems at national level. We must only prevent telling distortions arising from the fact that this is a cross-border issue.
I have already said, as regards the specific German/Austrian case, where proceedings are on-going, that unfortunately I cannot discuss it in detail here. I can, however, assure you that I made an enormous effort, in my first three months in office, to meet the parties concerned and pinpoint prospects for a positive outcome. In this respect, I found Mr Langen’s intervention constructive, as
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seems to recognise that such a prospect exists."@en1
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