Judgment_paragraph 105 · Ordem dos Técnicos Oficiais de Contas v Autoridade da Concorrência (C-1/12)

105Clearly, in that regard, it is not apparent from either the documents in the file sent by the referring court or from the observations lodged before the Court that the compulsory training of chartered accountants is of general economic interest exhibiting special characteristics as compared with that of other economic activities or, even if it were, that the application of the rules of the Treaty, in particular those relating to competition, would be such as to obstruct the performance of such a task (see, by analogy, Case C-179/90 Merci convenzionali porto di Genova [1991] ECR I-5889, paragraph 27).