43Consequently, a practice cannot be classified as abusive if it has remained at the planning stage. Furthermore, a competition authority cannot rely on the effects that that practice might produce, or might have produced, if certain specific circumstances had arisen, but 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.
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