The Law Reports (Queen's Bench Division)
[1999] QB 477
[COURT OF JUSTICE OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES]
YVES SAINT LAURENT PARFUMS S.A.
v.
JAVICO INTERNATIONAL A.G.
(Case C-306/96)
1997 Sept. 17;
Nov. 6;
1998 April 28
Nov. 6;
1998 April 28
President G. C. Rodríguez Iglesias Presidents of Chambers C. Gulmann and R. Schintgen Judges G. F. Mancini, J. C. Moitinho de Almeida, P. J. G. Kapteyn, D. A. O. Edward, J.-P. Puissochet, G. Hirsch, P. Jann and L. Sevón Advocate General G. Tesauro
European Community
— Free competition
— Restriction or distortion of competition
— Contract between supplier and distributor established in Community for distribution of products in non-Community countries
— Term forbidding distribution outside contractual countries
— Whether rules prohibiting restrictions of competition applicable
— Whether affected by previous Commission Decision giving exemption from rules for supplier's Community distribution network
—
E.C. Treaty (O.J. 1992 C. 224, p. 6), art. 85(1)