95However, it is clear, first, that the object of the agreements in which Gosselin participated was, as is apparent from the very nature of those agreements and as the Commission rightly demonstrated in the contested decision, to fix an artificially high price level for the removal services in question and to share customers for those services. The agreements therefore constituted forms of collusion that were particularly injurious to the proper functioning of normal competition. Gosselin’s claim that that was not the case and the fact that it did not participate in the agreement on prices are irrelevant in that regard and cannot, therefore, lead to the conclusion that the Commission erred in its classification of the agreements on commissions and cover quotes as agreements whose object was to restrict competition appreciably for the purpose of Article 81 EC.
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