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UCB voluntarily informed the Commission of nine cartel meetings held at the European level, from March 1994 until October 1998. It mentioned the participants and provided a brief general description of the contents of these meetings. It also added contemporaneous reports of the first two of these cartel meetings, which took place in 1994. At the time when UCB made this submission, the Commission was not aware of any meetings at the European level. Together, this evidence constituted a significant material contribution to the establishment of the infringement, even if no written contemporaneous evidence was provided for the period from 1995 to 1998.