No L 116/1 6.5.94 Official Journal of the European Communities 11 (Acts whose publication is not obligatory) COMMISSION COMMISSION DECISION of 16 February 1994 relating to a proceeding pursuant to Article 65 of the ECSC Treaty concerning agrecments and concerted practices engaged in by European producers of beams {Only the Spanish, German, English, French and Italian texts are authentic) (94/215/ECSC) THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES, Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European Coal and Steel Community, and in particular Article 65 thereof, I3 Having regard to information received by the Commission and inspections carried out pursuant to Article 47 of the ECSC Treaty by officials of the Commission, Having regard to the written and oral comments made pursuant to Article 36 of the ECSC Treaty in the name and on behalf of the parties, Whereas: 1. FACTS A. SUMMARY OF THE RESTRICTIONS OF (2) This cooperation between European producers and distributors of beams and some of their associations proceeded on different levels which may be summarized as follows: (a) COMMUNITY: On a Community level the most important forum for this cooperation were the meetings of a group known as the ‘Poutrelles Committee’, one of the committees of Eurofer. The exchange of information through Eurofer also has to be mentioned in this context. INDIVIDUAL MARKETS: g Apart from the meetings of the Poutrelles Committee, undertakings and associations of undertakings also met, on a more irregular basis, to discuss the markets of individual Member States — namely Italy, France and Germany — and to coordinate their behaviour on these markets. (c) INDIVIDUAL AGREEMENTS: COMPETITION In addition to the cooperation outlined above (1)  The - restrictions of competition which the some companies entered into individual Commission objects to stem from a series of market-sharing and/or price-fixing agreements, decisions and concerted practices arrangements. which have as their object or effect the fixing of . prices, the allocation of quotas and an extensive (d) EUROFER/SCANDINAVIA: exchange of information on the market for beams in the Community. Some of these agreements or concerted practices date back to 1984 ar least. Undertakings and associations of undertakings from the Community regularly met their