Judgment_paragraph 189 · Daiichi Pharmaceutical Co. Ltd v Commission of the European Communities (T-26/02)

189Since the data at issue relate to periods (lasting until 1998) which had ended at least six years previously and since the data are of no strategic value either, the Court, taking the view that the data were thereafter historical (see, to that effect, the order of 19 June 1996 in Joined Cases T-134/94, T-136/94 to T-138/94, T-141/94, T-145/94, T-147/94, T-148/94, T-151/94, T-156/94 and T-157/94 NMH Stahlwerke and Others v Commission [1996] ECR II-537, paragraphs 25 and 32), decided that there was no need to keep the data confidential in the publications relating to the present case. That is why certain data relating to the vitamin B5 market, including those concerning undertakings other than the applicant, were to be found in the report for the hearing and why, like certain data pertaining to the vitamin A and E markets, they are also to be found in this judgment, making the Court's reasoning relating to the first plea in this action more readily comprehensible.