58Furthermore, that review is carried out solely by reference to the elements of fact and of law existing on the date of adoption of the contested decision (Joined Cases 15/76 and 16/76 France v Commission [1979] ECR 321, paragraph 7, and Case T-395/94 Atlantic Container Line and Others v Commission [2002] ECR II-875, paragraph 252), without prejudice to the possibility afforded to the parties, in the exercise of their rights of defence, of supplementing them by evidence established after that date, but for the specific purpose of contesting or defending that decision (Case T-87/05 EDP v Commission [2005] ECR II-3745, paragraph 158; see also, to that effect, Case 75/84 Metro v Commission [1986] ECR 3021 (‘Metro II’), paragraphs 75 and 78, and Atlantic Container Lines and Others v Commission, cited above, paragraph 254).
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