36The requirements of legal certainty and of continuity of Community action which are at the origin of all those provisions would be disregarded if the Commission could, pursuant to the second paragraph of Article 232 EC, be requested to make a determination, outside a reasonable period, on the compatibility with the common market of a concentration which was not notified to it (see, to that effect, Case 59/70 Netherlands v Commission [1971] ECR 639, paragraphs 15 to 24). Undertakings could thus lead the Commission to call in question a decision taken by the competent national authorities with regard to a concentration, even after the exhaustion of the possible legal remedies against such decision in the legal system of the Member State concerned.
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