Judgment_paragraph 95 · BaByliss SA v Commission of the European Communities (T-114/02)

95It follows that the applicant actively participated in the procedure. Although, as the Commission rightly points out, mere participation is in itself not sufficient to show that the decision is of individual concern to the applicant, particularly in the field of concentrations, the careful examination of which requires regular contact with numerous undertakings, nevertheless active participation in the administrative procedure is a factor regularly taken into account by case-law in competition matters, including in the more specific area of the control of concentrations, to establish, in conjunction with other specific circumstances, the admissibility of the action (Case 169/84 Cofaz and Others v Commission [1986] ECR 391, paragraphs 24 and 25; Joined Cases C-68/94 and C-30/95 France v Commission [1998] ECR I-1375, paragraph 54, and Case T-2/93 Air France v Commission, cited above, paragraph 44).

BaByliss SA v Commission of the European Communities (T-114/02)

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