TY - JOUR AU1 - Van Gerven AU2 - Navarro Varona AB - Common Market Law Review 31: 575-608, 1994. O 1994 Kluwer Academic Publishers. Printed in the Netherlands. GERWIN VAN GERVEN AND EDURNE NAVARRO VARONA* 1. Introduction On 31 March 1993, the Court of Justice of the European Communities ("Court of Justice") rendered its judgment on the merits in the Wood pulp case.' The judgment marked the end of a controversial antitrust procedure which lasted over 15 years. Already in 1988, the Court of Justice had rendered a first judgment in this case, upholding the jurisdiction of the Commission of the European Communities ("Commission") to act against undertakings which were not established in the Eu.~ ropean C ~ m m u n i t y The judgment on the merits took another five years and annulled most of the Commission's decision of 19 December 1984.3 As well as anti-competitive agreements, Article 85(1) EC prohibits anti-competitive concerted practices which may affect trade between Member States. The Woodpulp judgment constitutes an important development in the Court of Justice's case law on concerted practices. The judgment clarifies the relationship between a "concerted practice" and "parallel behaviour", a relationship which had remained somewhat * Boden De Bandt De Brauw Jeantet Lagerlof & Uria (Brussels). TI - The Wood Pulp Case and the Future of Concerted Practices JF - Common Market Law Review DA - 1994-06-01 UR - https://www.deepdyve.com/lp/kluwer-law-international/the-wood-pulp-case-and-the-future-of-concerted-practices-W40vN2f7sy SP - 575 EP - 608 VL - 31 IS - 3 DP - DeepDyve ER -