associations with
legal personality which exist for the promotion of commercial or of
independent professional interests, so far as a considerable number of entrepreneurs belong thereto, and which distribute goods or services of the same or similar type on the same market, provided such associations are actually in a position, particularly in terms of their personnel, material and financial resources, to pursue the tasks, under their memoranda of association, of promoting commercial or
independent professional interests, and so far as the contravention affects the interests of their members;