701If the Commission is to comply with the timetable thus laid down by Regulation No 4064/89, the intermediate periods laid down at each stage of the procedure must also be brief. Inevitably, this has an adverse effect on the conditions under which all the parties to the proceedings must work, but the gain in terms of the speed of the proceedings as a whole was regarded by the legislature as justifying those sacrifices, particularly in order to take account of the commercial interest of the parties to a merger in completing their proposed merger as quickly as possible. The Court has already had occasion to observe that, when assessing alleged infringements of the rights of the defence in the context of proceedings under Regulation No 4064/89, it is necessary to take into account the necessity for speed, which characterises the general scheme of that regulation (see, to that effect, Kaysersberg v Commission, paragraph 84 above, paragraph 113, and Endemol v Commission, paragraph 115 above, paragraph 68).
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