Article considérant 27

(27) Dans une note interne de la direction des ventes de Konica UK de la même date, on peut lire ce qui suit, au sujet de ce télex: « We know that there is a UK source who is collecting film parcels together in quantities of 5-10 000 rolls from each dealer and transshipping these, mainly to West Germany. . . . Iy you are aware, or suspect, any dealer with grey exporting, please do not sell any goods, for the simple reason that each time we are caught out we have to buy back the film from the country of exports and pay delivery cost and perhaps compensation element. As you can imagine, it costs a small fortune and is easily traced because each country in Europe has a separate film code on the box which indicates the original importing country ». (28) Un télex adressé à Konica Europe le 15 mars 1985, dans lequel Konica UK cite les « exportateurs parallèles » présumés, se termine par la phrase suivante: « Let me assure you that we will do our utmost to prevent sales into Europe but you should investigate these other grey importers/exporters. » La réponse de Konica Europe à ce télex se termine par la phrase: « Thank you very much for your information and I appreciate your efforts in preventing grey exports » et se poursuit comme suit: « We in fact suspected Jersey. That was because you were so confident that none of your wholesalers, including Jersey, had been involved in grey business, while we had clear evidence of grey imports from UK. . . . If Jersey is not, then someone else among those who insist that they have never grey exported must be the one. Anyway, . . . is a quite new name for us. We will start investigations! »