17With reference to the requirements of the second paragraph of Article 173 of the EEC Treaty, it must be held first that the applicant was the addressee of the decision of 12 January 1990 containing the refusal, which was notified to it by a letter of the same date following its request of 29 November 1989, and secondly that the decision in issue affected the applicant's legal position in so far as its effect was to hinder the examination, in connection with the provisional hearing of witnesses, of facts which might have proved relevant to the applicant's decision whether to bring an action for damages against the Produktschap.
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