148As regards, next, the criterion of the impact of the cartel, it must be held that, although the Commission found in the contested decision that certain parts of the agreement were not, or were not fully, implemented, it held, by contrast, that it could not be concluded that there was no effect, or only a limited effect, on the market. In support of that finding, the Commission relied not only on the written evidence represented by the notes taken by a representative of Interbrew at the meeting of 28 January 1998, which record a number of achievements, but also on the fact, determined by the Commission, that the arrangements for the exchange of information about sales between Alken-Maes and Interbrew were actually implemented. The fact that an agreement having an anti-competitive object is implemented, even if only in part, is sufficient to preclude the possibility that the agreement had no effect on the market.
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