19The Commission transmitted the documents by letter of 20 May 1998, but requested that they should not be placed on the case-file and communicated to the appellant until the Court of First Instance had given a ruling on their confidentiality, applying the criteria laid down in the order of the Court of First Instance of 10 December 1997 in Joined Cases T-134/94, T-136/94 to T-138/94, T-141/94, T-145/94, T-147/94, T-148/94, T-151/94, T-156/94 and T-157/94 NMH Stahlwerke and Others v Commission [1997] ECR II-2293. In order to justify its request, the Commission pleaded the fact that those documents related to tenders submitted by competitors of the appellant and that the latter would gain an unfair advantage if it became aware of the contents of those documents.
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