GAA Antitrust Policy Statement

The Gravure Association of America is organized to promote, develop and maintain the advancement of gravure processing and/or printing. GAA is not intended to, and may not, play any role in the competitive decisions of its members or their employees, or in any way restrict the competition in any respect of the gravure industry.

The Board of Directors through this statement of policy makes clear its unequivocal support for the policy of competition served by the antitrust laws and its uncompromising intent to comply strictly in all respects to those laws. It is an individual responsibility of every member of GAA to be guided by GAA’s policy of strict compliance with the antitrust laws in all GAA activities. It shall be the special responsibility of any committee chairperson and association officers to assure that this policy is known and adhered to in the course of activities pursued under their leadership.

It is not GAA’s role to act as an arbiter or judge of competitive conduct of industry members. As such, this statement of antitrust policy is not a mechanism through which members should charge another member with alleged illegal action. Courts of law are the proper places for such allegations.

Margo Lopez
Ogletree, Deakins, Nash,
Smoak & Stewart, P.C.
General Counsel