466As regards the condition under paragraph (b) in respect of the vitamins A and E infringements, the applicant maintains that it, together with Roche, was the first undertaking to inform the Commission of the cartel in the vitamins sector and to provide it with details of the individual vitamins involved, the participating undertakings and the duration of the cartel. This evidence was given to the Commission orally at a meeting on 17 May 1999 and was ‘decisive’ within the meaning of Section B(b) of the Leniency Notice, since it was sufficient in itself to establish the existence of the cartel, in accordance with the criterion used by the Commission in Decision 2001/418/EC of 7 June 2000 relating to a proceeding pursuant to Article 81 of the EC Treaty and Article 53 of the EEA Agreement (Case No COMP/36.545/F3 — Amino acids) (OJ 2001 L 152, p. 24, recital 409) and Decision 2002/742/EC of 5 December 2001 relating to a proceeding pursuant to Article 81 of the EC Treaty and Article 53 of the EEA Agreement (Case No COMP/E-1/36.604 — Citric acid) (OJ 2002 L 239, p. 18; ‘the Citric Acid Decision’, recital 306).