97The Court notes that BASF remains very vague as to the information on choline chloride which it claims to have provided at that meeting, which took place between Commission officials and representatives of BASF and of Hoffman-La Roche. As regards the documentary evidence of what was discussed at the meeting, the file contains shorthand notes taken by a Commission official. BASF reproduces in its pleadings extracts from the Scholz statement which it annexed to its application. As regards the appraisal of that statement as evidence, the Rules of Procedure do not preclude the parties from producing such statements; however, their appraisal is a matter for the Court, which, if the facts described therein are crucial to the outcome of the case, may order, by way of a measure of inquiry, that the author of such a document be heard as a witness (see, to that effect, order of the Court of 24 October 2003 in Case T-172/03 Heurtaux v Commission, not published in the ECR, paragraph 3). In the present case there is no need to adopt such a measure.
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