Judgment_paragraph 72 · JCB Service v Commission of the European Communities (C-167/04 P)

72In particular, as regards the notification procedure, JCB did no more than criticise the excessively long duration of that procedure. The Court of First Instance was right in considering in paragraph 39 that the mere fact of not having been adopted within a reasonable time cannot render unlawful a decision taken by the Commission following notification of an agreement.