The companies punished included the Italian company Edison SpA and its subsidiary Solvay Solexis SpA (called Ausimont SpA at the material time), the Italian company SNIA SpA and its subsidiary Caffaro SpA, the Belgian company Solvay SA, US company FMC Corporation and its Spanish subsidiary FMC Foret SA. The participation of the French company L’Air Liquide SA in the cartel had ended more than five years prior to the Commission's first investigative measures, so although it was among the addresses of the Commission’s decision, it was not fined because the limitation period had expired.
Parmi les sociétés sanctionnées figuraient les sociétés italiennes Edison SpA et sa filiale Solvay Solexis SpA (à l’époque des faits dénommée Ausimont SpA), SNIA SpA et sa filiale Caffaro SpA, la société belge Solvay SA, la société FMC Corporation (États-Unis) et sa filiale espagnole FMC Foret SA. La participation à l’entente de la société française L’Air Liquide SA avait cessé plus de cinq ans
avant les premiers actes d’instruction de la Commission, de sorte que tout en étant destinataire de la décision de la Commission, elle ne s’étai
t pas vu infliger d’amende en raison ...[+++] de la prescription.