Yves Saint Laurent Parfums SA v Javico International AG

Subject Matter

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 — EC Treaty, art 85(1)

[1999] QB 477; [1998] 3 WLR 1200