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(7) Whereas the agreements referred to in Article 4(2) of Regulation No 17 are dispensed from the requirement of notification prior to exemption; whereas the purpose of this dispensation is to reduce the number of notifications, which enables the Commission to concentrate its efforts on supervising those restrictive agreements which are the most damaging to competition; whereas, therefore, this amendment does not entail any relaxation in the supervision which the Commission has a duty to exercise under Article 81(1);

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Source: EUR-Lex (Cellar) · retrieved 2026-10-22 · Text as adopted (Official Journal); later amendments are not incorporated in this text.