5.7 Relations with Competitors

The Group acknowledges and fosters a healthy and loyal competition among competitors. Therefore, it undertakes to respect the antitrust regulations in force in each of the Countries in which it operates, as well as the acts and directives issued by the Authorities regulating the market.

The Corporate Bodies, the Management and – in general – People of the Group are responsible for the compliance with said regulations and must abstain from any behaviours that can in any way cause competitive distortions in the markets involved in the activities of the Group’s Companies.

From the antitrust viewpoint, it is prohibited, in particular, to carry out abusive or collusive practices with the aim to: set or impose prices, or other contractual conditions; impede or limit production; divide the geographical market or customers; boycott Suppliers and Customers; apply dissimilar conditions for equivalent performances.

The Group shall provide all the Italian and EU regulatory and competition Authorities (in particular, the Italian Competition Authority, the Transport Regulatory Authority and the European Commission) with all the information that said Authorities might require and shall collaborate actively with the same during possible investigations or preliminary investigations.