Judgment_paragraph 31 · Morningstar, Inc. v European Commission (T-76/14)

31In the present case, in accordance with Article 9(1) of Regulation No 1/2003, the contested decision makes TR’s final commitments of 7 November 2012 binding. The Commission examined the effects of the restrictions imposed by TR as regards the RICs and concluded that those restrictions were detrimental to competition, in that they hindered TR’s customers from switching provider and, as a result, reduced the ability of competitors to enter the market or to compete on the basis of the merits of their services. The final commitments, which seek to facilitate the switch of TR’s customers to competing consolidated real-time datafeed providers, explicitly exclude those competing providers from being eligible to enter into either an ERL agreement or a TPDL agreement. In so far as it limits the possibility for the applicant to conclude such contracts, the contested decision directly affects its legal situation.