131In that regard the criticism of the Commission’s application of the general index of industrial production prices in order to adjust the value of the land in question to the inflation present until 2003, in so far as it applies to industrial assets and not to the land on which those assets are produced, is not convincing. It was for the Commission to ascertain the value of that land, not in 1995, but at the time of the disputed sale, in 2003. Moreover, as there was no general index of industrial land, the Commission had to apply either the index of commercial real estate property prices or the general index of industrial production prices, which was used in the present case. It should be observed that that choice was rather favourable for the applicants, as it led to a lower price than the one that would have obtained through the application of the index of commercial real estate property prices. In those circumstances, the Commission made no manifest error of assessment in using the general index of industrial production prices. Accordingly, the conclusion is that, in the present case, it attributed a value to the property in issue which corresponded with sufficient accuracy to the market value in December 2003, as required by the applicable case-law (judgment in Scott v Commission, cited in paragraph 130 above, EU:T:2003:113, paragraph 100).
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