679On that point, the Court notes, as a preliminary point, that the case-law on ‘essential facilities’ relates, in essence, to circumstances in which a refusal to supply by an undertaking in a dominant position, by virtue, in particular, of the exercise of a property right, may constitute an abuse of a dominant position. That case-law therefore relates in particular to situations in which the free exercise of an exclusive right, being a right which rewards investment or innovation, may be limited in the interest of undistorted competition on the common market (see, to that effect, Opinion of Advocate General Jacobs in Bronner, paragraph 628 above, paragraphs 57 to 65, and the judgment in Microsoft v Commission, paragraph 32 above, paragraphs 331 to 333).
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