36Disclosure of the replies given by the Commission in the context of the Notice could indeed undermine the protection of the public interest (court proceedings), and not only in the situation evoked by the Netherlands Government. When a national court applies Articles 85(1) and 86 of the Treaty, it does so on the basis of its autonomous jurisdiction and in a manner determined in principle by national procedural rules (Case C-60/92Otto v Postbank [1993] ECR I-5683, paragraph 14, and Case C-234/89Delimitis v Bräu [1991] ECR I-935, paragraph 53). It follows from those principles that if a national court submits a request to the Commission it is for that court alone to determine on the basis of its national procedural law whether and, if so, when and under what conditions the Commission's reply may be disclosed to third parties. That remains the case at least for as long as the litigation in question is pending.