85The addition of further evidence to the contested decision, relating to the recovery measures taken by AFR, cannot call this fact into question. As the Commission points out, such an addition is intended to respond in more detail to the arguments expounded by the applicants in their applications. Therefore it cannot be maintained that the addition of further evidence contravenes the applicants’ right to a fair hearing, since this addition on the contrary shows the observance of this right. In any event, the applicants gave no information which, had the Commission taken it into account, might have changed the Commission’s conclusion in the contested decision. For such an infringement of the right to a fair hearing to result in an annulment it must, however, be established that, had it not been for that irregularity, the outcome of the procedure might have been different (Case 259/85 France v Commission [1987] ECR 4393, paragraphs 12 and 13, and Case C-301/87 France v Commission [1990] ECR I-307, paragraphs 30 and 31).
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