131It follows that, as the Advocate General also observed, in essence, in points 119 and 138 of his Opinion, the EU Court hearing a request for the withdrawal of such evidence, must weigh in the balance, on the one hand, the interest of the applicant who produced those items of evidence, having regard, inter alia, to their usefulness for the purposes of assessing the merits of the action brought before it and, on the other hand, the interests of the opposing party which the retention in the file of those items of evidence could specifically and effectively harm.
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