33Regarding the substance, the Commission states that it is clear from the judgments of the Court of First Instance of 20 March 2002 concerning the pre-insulated pipe cartel that the Guidelines do not infringe Article 15(2) of Regulation No 17 (Case T-9/99 HFB and Others v Commission [2002] ECR II-1487; Case T-15/99 Brugg Rohrsysteme v Commission [2002] ECR II-1613; Case T-16/99 Lögstör Rör v Commission [2002] ECR II-1633; Case T-17/99 KE KELIT v Commission [2002] ECR II-1647; Case T-21/99 Dansk Rørindustri v Commission [2002] ECR II-1681; Case T-28/99 Sigma Tecnologie v Commission [2002] ECR II-1845; Case T-31/99 ABB Asea Brown Boveri v Commission [2002] ECR II-1881, and, in particular, LR AF 1998 v Commission, cited in paragraph 27 above, paragraphs 223 to 232 and 278 to 291). Consequently, that objection of illegality should be rejected as unfounded.
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