Division 6.1 The processors infringement

From 1995 until the beginning of 2002 Deltafina, Dimon, Transcatab and Romana Tabacchi entered into agreements and or participated into concerted practices aimed at fixing their trading conditions for the purchase of raw tobacco in Italy (to include both direct purchases from producers and purchases from third packers), including: (a) The setting of common purchase prices which processors would pay at the delivery of tobacco and other trading conditions; (b) the allocation of suppliers and quantities; (c) the exchange of information to co-ordinate their competitive purchasing behaviour; (d) the determination of quantities and prices in respect of surplus production; and (e) the co-ordination of bids for public auctions in 1995 and 1998.