73The Commission adds that, although the applicants may have believed that they were not beneficiaries of the aid measure, they cannot maintain that they were not concerned by that procedure, because it is settled case-law that ‘parties concerned’ within the meaning of Article 88(2) EC include not only the undertaking or undertakings benefiting from the aid, but those persons, undertakings or associations whose interests might be affected by the grant of the aid, in particular competing undertakings (Intermills v Commission, paragraph 16, and Case T-69/96 Hamburger Hafen- und Lagerhaus and Others v Commission [2001] ECR II-1037, paragraph 40).
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