Judgment_paragraph 47 · Sniace, SA v Commission of the European Communities (T-88/01)

47Finally, the applicant accepts that, according to the case-law, the mere fact that a measure may exercise an influence on the competitive relationships existing on a given market cannot suffice to allow any trader in any competitive relationship whatever with the addressee of the measure to be regarded as directly and individually concerned by that measure (Joined Cases 10/68 and 18/68 Eridania and Others v Commission [1969] ECR 459, paragraph 7). However, it stresses that, first, there is only a limited number of producers on the market for the products concerned (there are only five manufacturers in the market sector for ‘commodity viscose staple fibres’ and three in the market sector for ‘spundyed viscose staple fibres’) and, second, that the investment project will entail a significant increase in production capacity.