16In those circumstances, the fact that the institutions took the prices paid by the first buyer who was independent of the related sales companies is justified, given that those prices may quite properly be regarded as the prices actually paid or payable in the ordinary course of trade within the meaning of Article 2(3)(a) of Regulation No 2176/84.
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