The EU Court of First Instance upholds that a company manufacturing plasterboards abused its dominant position by offering loyalty payments and rebates to builder’s merchants in Great Britain (British Gypsum)

Case T-65/89 BPB Industries plc and British Gypsum Limited v Commission of the European Communities* 1. Since the Commission has established a procedure for access to the file in competition cases and has formulated and published the rules in one of its reports on competition policy, it has an obligation to make available to the undertakings involved in proceedings under Article 85(1) of the Treaty all documents, whether in their favour or otherwise, which it has obtained during the course of the investigation, save where the business secrets of other undertakings, the internal documents of the Commission or other confidential information are involved. 2. The procedure for access to the file in competition cases is intended to enable the addressees of a Statement of Objections to