94The applicant claims that, according to the case-law of the Court of Justice, the person concerned must be enabled effectively to make known his point of view during the administrative procedure (Case 259/85 France v Commission [1987] ECR 4393, paragraph 12). In practice the result is that the person concerned has the opportunity to be heard orally. In the same way Article 6 of the European Convention for the Protection of Human Rights and Fundamental Freedoms should be given a broad interpretation, as including the right to be heard not only in writing, but also orally.
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