178It is settled case-law that, in order to assess the Community interest in further investigation of a case, the Commission must take account of the circumstances of the case, and in particular of the legal and factual particulars set out in the complaint referred to it. In particular, it must weigh the significance of the alleged infringement as regards the functioning of the common market against the probability of its being able to establish the existence of the infringement and the extent of the investigative measures necessary in order to fulfil in the best conditions its task of ensuring the observance of Articles 81 EC and 82 EC (Case T-24/90 Automec v Commission [1992] ECR II-2223, paragraph 86, Tremblay and Others v Commission, cited in paragraph 148 above, paragraph 62, and Joined Cases T-185/96, T-189/96 and T-190/96 Riviera Auto Service and Others v Commission [1999] ECR II-93, paragraph 46).
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