29In addition, the Court of Justice has held that the basic provisions of the regulation, in particular Article 2, confer on the Commission a certain discretion, especially with respect to assessments of an economic nature, and that, consequently, review by the Courts of the European Union of the exercise of that discretion, which is essential for defining the rules on concentrations, must take account of the margin of discretion implicit in the provisions of an economic nature which form part of the rules on concentrations (see, in relation to the previous merger regulation, Joined Cases C-68/94 and C-30/95 France and Others v Commission (‘Kali & Salz’) [1998] ECR I-1375, paragraphs 223 and 224, and Commission v Tetra Laval, cited in paragraph 27 above, paragraph 38).
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