99Contrary to the General Court’s finding at paragraph 119 of the judgment under appeal, a proceeding under Article 81 EC cannot be regarded as closed once the Commission’s final decision has been adopted irrespective of any possible future judgment by the EU judicature annulling that decision. Indeed, under Article 233 EC, the annulment of such a decision may lead the Commission to resume its investigations with a view to adopting, if appropriate, a new decision on the application of Article 81 EC, which was, moreover, the case here with regard to two of the parties concerned, as the Commission indicated at the hearing, and may therefore lead that institution to reuse information in the file relating to the annulled decision or to supplement the file with other information in the exercise of the powers conferred on it by Regulation No 1/2003. Consequently, investigations relating to a proceeding under Article 81 EC may be regarded as completed only when the decision adopted by the Commission in connection with that proceeding is final.
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