47It should be emphasised, so far as concerns relationships formed in the context of proceedings conducted by the Commission pursuant to Articles 81 EC and 82 EC, that the rules for the operation of the duty of sincere cooperation which stems from Article 10 EC and which binds the Commission in its relationships with the Member States have been stated in, inter alia, Articles 11 to 16 of Regulation No 1/2003, in Chapter IV headed ‘Cooperation’. Those provisions do not impose an obligation on the Commission to consult the NRA, nor do they provide for the Commission being able, as claimed by the Kingdom of Spain, to undertake ‘joint action’ with them in proceedings conducted by the Commission pursuant to Articles 81 EC and 82 EC.
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