68However, and contrary to what is maintained by ADR, the Court did not, in the context of that case-law, call into question the Commission’s practice of unilaterally adopting an enforceable recovery order in the context of contractual relations. Indeed, as the General Court rightly pointed out in paragraph 204 of the judgment under appeal, in the same case-law, the Court confined itself to examining the legal nature of the debit notes sent in the contractual context concerned and whether they could constitute a challengeable act, without, however, addressing the question whether the Commission may, in the context of contractual relations, rely on its power to formally establish an amount as being receivable by means of an enforceable decision.
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