53However, that requirement of independence does not deprive economic operators of the right to adapt themselves intelligently to the existing or anticipated conduct of their competitors (John Deere v Commission, paragraph 87; Commission v Anic Partecipazioni, paragraph 117; and Thyssen Stahl v Commission, paragraph 83).
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