Judgment_paragraph 50 · GE Healthcare A/S v European Commission (T-783/17)

50In that respect, the competent authority is obliged to refer to the main reports and scientific expert opinions on which it relies and to explain, in the event of a significant discrepancy, the reasons why it has departed from the conclusions of the reports or expert opinions supplied by the undertakings concerned. That obligation is particularly strict in cases of scientific uncertainty. The consultation is to be inter partes and transparent in order to ensure that the substance considered has undergone an in-depth and objective scientific assessment, based on using the most representative scientific theories and scientific positions put forward by the relevant pharmaceutical laboratories (see, to that effect, judgments of 26 November 2002, Artegodan and Others v Commission, T‑74/00, T‑76/00, T‑83/00 to T‑85/00, T‑132/00, T‑137/00 and T‑141/00, EU:T:2002:283, paragraph 200, and of 11 December 2014, PP Nature-Balance Lizenz v Commission, T‑189/13, not published, EU:T:2014:1056, paragraph 52).