Judgment_paragraph 18 · Aéroports de Paris v Commission of the European Communities (C-82/01 P)

18Moreover, the interpretation that the activity carried on by ADP is not excluded from the scope of Regulation No 17 by Regulation No 141 is supported by the express wording of the latter regulation. Thus, in the first place, as the Court of First Instance noted at paragraph 56 of the contested judgment, the third recital of the preamble to Regulation No 141 explains that the distinctive features of transport make it justifiable to exempt from the application of Regulation No 17 only agreements, decisions and concerted practices ‘directly relating to the provision of transport services’. Second, Article 1 of Regulation No 141 precludes the application of Regulation No 17 only in respect of agreements ‘which have as their object or effect the fixing of transport rates and conditions, the limitation or control of the supply of transport or the sharing of transport markets’.