Judgment_paragraph 45 · Petrolessence SA and Société de gestion de restauration Routière SA (SG2R) v Commission of the European Communities (T-342/00)

45In their reply, the applicants claim that it is a general principle of Community law that the Commission must act within a reasonable time in adopting decisions following administrative procedures relating to competition (see Case C-282/95 P Guérin Automobiles v Commission [1997] ECR I-1503). They maintain that the Commission's interpretation of the commitments disregards the safeguards allowed by the Community legal order in administrative procedures. Failure to acknowledge the legal effects of exceeding the 10-day limit required by point 4 of the commitments would, in practice, leave open the possibility of postponement of a decision by the Commission until an unspecified date (see Case T-7/92 Asia Motor France and Others v Commission [1993] ECR II-669).