28Finally, while, according to the wording of the first sentence of Article 6(1) of Regulation No 715/2007, manufacturers are obliged to provide ‘unrestricted … access’ to vehicle repair and maintenance information, making that information available in read-only access cannot be regarded, contrary to what Gesamtverband and the Commission have maintained, as a restriction on access to that information. Since that provision distinguishes between, on the one hand, the access to be provided, which must be ‘unrestricted’, and, on the other hand, the format in which it must be granted, the absence of restriction refers to the actual content of the information that must be provided to the independent operators and not to the ways in which it is provided.
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