From: tgmur@tinet.ch (Thomas Gmuer) Newsgroups: rec.autos.sport.f1 Subject: FIA stands trial VI (Eisele strikes back and wins again) Date: Thu, 12 Jun 1997 22:44:06 +0200 Organization: Friends of Carlotta Lines: 59 Message-ID: <1997061222440622399@chiasso-ppp12.tinet.ch> NNTP-Posting-Host: chiasso-ppp12.tinet.ch Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Newsreader: MacSOUP 2.2b3 The following is a press-release from AE TV Corporation GmbH as been sent out to the agencies on June 6, 1997. (Sorry, I am a little late with that one as well) Second Interim Injuction against FIA - cancellation of the 1997 FIA European Truck Racing Cup declared illegal ------------------------------------------------------------------- On June 6, 1997, and upon application of AE TV Cooperation, the District Court in Frankfurt issued the second interim injunction against FIA within three days. As you may recall, on June 4, 1997, the District Court in Frankfurt ordered FIA to refrain immediately (as of June 4, 1997) from taking any measure to implement its decision to market the TV rights of the 1997 European Truck Racing Cup. In reaction to this judgement (wich will certainly have implications for the other FIA series as well), FIA announced that it would cancel the 1997 FIA European Truck Racing alltogether by way of a decision of the FIA World Motor Sport Council on June 11, 1997. In today's Judgment, the Court made it clear that it was not prepared to tolerate this outrageous move by FIA and its "leading heads", Messrs. Ecclestone and Mosley, wich was clearly designed to circumvent the ruling in the first Judgment. The Court held that the new resolution announced by FIA would also infringe Article 85 EC Treaty (prohibition of cartels) and ordered FIA today not to announce, disseminate, make or implement, within the entire territory of the EC, any resolution that the 1997 FIA European Truck Racing Cup would be cancelled or would no longer form part of any international series recognised by FIA. As already indicated in the first Judgment, this interim injuction, if violated, would be subject to a fine of up to DM 500.000 and imprisonment for FIA's President, Mr. Mosley. With the help of our lawyers, the German law firm Oppenhoff & Rädler and the international law firm Alliance of European Lawyers in Brussels (wich is specialised in EC competition law and of wich Oppenhoff & Rädler is a member), AE TV Cooperation will ensure full compliance with both interim injuctions. Today's Judgment is the second victory for all participants (apart from FIA and ISC, of course) in the European Truck Racing Cup. In fact, if the series had indeed been cancelled by FIA, all investments made by organizers, manufacturers and teams in the series thus far, would have been lost. A copy of the Judgment has been faxed today to FIA (Mr. Mosley). The European Commission in Brussels has also been informed of FIA's new attempt to infringe EC competition rules. Best regards Wolfgang Eisele AE TV Corporation GmbH Hugo-Stotz-Str. 14 69123 Heidelberg /Germany Phone: (+49) 6221 776033 Fax: (+49) 6221 776035