70Admittedly, such effects must not be purely hypothetical (judgment of 6 October 2015, Post Danmark, C‑23/14, EU:C:2015:651, paragraph 65). As a result, first, a practice cannot be characterised as abusive if it remained at the project stage without having been implemented. Second, competition authorities cannot rely on the effects that that practice might produce or might have produced if certain specific circumstances – which were not prevailing on the market at the time when that practice was implemented and which did not, at the time, appear likely to arise – had arisen or did arise.
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