Judgment_paragraph 59 · Cementos Portland Valderrivas, SA v European Commission (T-296/11)

59The fact remains that such arguments do not take into account the specific context of the contested decision, in that they are, in actual fact, tantamount to contending that the evidence in the Commission’s possession is not such as to prove that the applicant was involved in the putative infringements referred to in the contested decision. For the reasons stated in paragraph 43 above, unless the powers conferred on the Commission by Articles 18 and 20 of Regulation No 1/2003 are to be entirely deprived of their purpose, no such proof can be required of the Commission. Therefore, the fact that the evidence held by the Commission may be subject to different interpretations does not preclude it from constituting reasonable grounds within the meaning of the case-law cited in paragraph 40 above, since the interpretation favoured by the Commission is plausible.