70As the defendant maintains, the appraisal by the Commission of the compatibility of a concentration with the common market must be carried out solely on the basis of the matters of fact and law existing at the time of notification of that transaction, and not on the basis of hypothetical factors the economic implications of which cannot be assessed at the time when the decision is adopted.
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