Bretagne Angleterre Irlande (BAI) v Commission of the European Communities (T-14/96)

Judgment of 28 Jan 1999

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66In the present case the Court considers that the arguments which in substance are closely connected with the plea alleging infringement of Article 92(1) of the Treaty, cannot be regarded as new pleas for the purpose of the Rules of Procedure, although they were put forward for the first time in the reply. It is common ground that the applicant raised the abovementioned plea in the application initiating the proceedings and that it adduced at that stage legal and factual arguments capable of supporting that plea. The arguments concerning the failure to analyse the effect on competition of long-term purchases of large numbers of vouchers and the element of the original agreement which was objected to but retained in the 1995 agreement are in reality amplifications of a plea which has already been raised. Consequently, the Community court will allow them to be submitted at the stage of the reply (see Case T-106/95 FFSA and Others v Commission [1997] ECR II-229, paragraph 125).

Bretagne Angleterre Irlande (BAI) v Commission of the European Communities (T-14/96)

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