52The Commission clearly set out, in its SO of 8 May 2001 in the present case, the objections pertaining to all the anti-competitive consequences of the merger, particularly those concerning horizontal and vertical effects deriving from the merger which were subsequently included in the contested decision (see, in particular, points 118 to 122, 124 to 126, 459 to 468, 469 to 471, 473, 474, 578 to 586 and 612 to 633 of the SO). In order to address the objections raised by the Commission in the SO, the applicant proposed on 14 June 2001, among others, structural commitments which the Commission examined but rejected on the ground that practical considerations would have prevented their being put into effect. The applicant has put no evidence or arguments before the Court to explain in what specific regard the rejection of those commitments was illegal or unjustified (see, in particular, paragraphs 487, 555 et seq., 564 in fine and 610 below). The Commission is not responsible for technical or commercial gaps in the commitments in question (which led it to conclude that they were insufficient to permit it to approve the merger at issue); nor, more specifically, can those gaps be attributed to any unwillingness on its part to accept that other commitments, of a behavioural nature, might be effective. It was for the parties to the merger to put forward commitments which were comprehensive and effective from all points of view and to do so in principle before 14 June 2001.
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