Judgment_paragraph 114 · Nederlandse Federatieve Vereniging voor de Groothandel op Elektrotechnisch Gebied and Technische Unie BV v Commission of the European Communities (T-5/00, T-6/00)

114The Commission contests those arguments. First, it states that agreements whose object is to restrict competition are prohibited by Article 81(1) EC, without there being any need to consider their effects (Joined Cases 56/64 and 58/64 Consten and Grundig v Commission [1966] ECR 429, and Case T-34/92 Fiatagri and New Holland Ford v Commission [1994] ECR II-905, paragraph 49). In view of the subject-matter of the infringements, an incorrect definition of the market cannot, moreover, give rise to annulment of the contested decision. It emphasises that such importance as purchasers may attach to the services offered by wholesalers supports the reasoning of the contested decision, according to which there is a specific market for services of that kind.