96It follows that the Commission is not obliged to maintain the factual or legal assessments set forth in that document. Rather, it must give as reasons for its ultimate decision its final assessments based on the results of the whole of its investigation as they stand at the time the administrative proceedings are closed. Furthermore, the Commission is not obliged to explain any differences between its final assessments and its provisional assessments set out in the statement of objections (see Bertelsmann and Sony Corporation of America v Impala, paragraphs 64 and 65 and the case-law cited).
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