110According to the applicants, the procedural rules contained in Article 21 of the basic regulation are intended solely to confer certain rights on users and consumers that are not covered by Article 6 of the said regulation, and to restate in certain cases the procedural rights of complainants which result fundamentally from that article. They cite Joined Cases T-33/98 and T-34/98 Petrotub and Republica v Council [1999] ECR II-3837 to show that Article 21 of the basic regulation does not preclude the application of other provisions conferring procedural rights on the interested parties. The applicants are of the view that the right of complainants to obtain a meeting to allow for an exchange of views cannot be denied on the ground that this would constitute discrimination in relation to users which have not been granted that right. They consider that such ‘discrimination’ already exists under Article 6(6) of the basic regulation.
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