Commitments – Exploitative abuses : The European Commission makes mandatory the commitments proposed by a company in order to respond to its statement of objections on its practices concerning the license fees for the use of International Securities Identification Numbers (ISIN) (Standard and Poor’s)

*This article is an automatic translation of the original article, provided here for your convenience. Read the original article. Eur. Comm, 15 November 2011, Standard and Poor's, Case COMP/39592 The Commission, by its decision of 15 November 2011 in Case COMP 39.592, renders binding, as amended, the commitments offered by Standard and Poor's with regard to the distribution and billing of ISIN numbers, the international numbering codes for the identification of securities issued in the United States. The commitments procedure (see this column, F. Marty, "Commission market tests commitments proposed by Standard and Poor's to end proceedings against its pricing practices for the dissemination and use of International Securities Identification Numbers (ISINs)", Concurrences No. 3-2011,