231The Japanese applicants correctly observe that the Vallourec notes contain only considerations internal to that company and, in the case of some of them, observations concerning the discussions held between that company and Corus. Whilst that fact inevitably detracts from the probative value of those notes vis-àvis the Japanese applicants, it cannot prevent the Commission from relying on them as inculpatory evidence corroborating the explicit statements of Mr Verluca, above all in the context of more wide-ranging consistent evidence. The fact that Vallourec employees believed that the Fundamental Rules were effective in protecting the European domestic markets against Japanese producers in itself constitutes an indication that such protection actually existed.
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