Interest in bringing proceedings: The General Court establishes the conditions under which the consumer associations have the right to be heard by the Commission within the framework of the examination of a concentration (Association belge des consommateurs test-achats)

*This article is an automatic translation of the original article, provided here for your convenience. Read the original article. Under a judgment rendered on October 12, 2011, in a case brought in the margins of two decisions adopted by the Commission of 12 November 2009, the first rejecting the application submitted by the Belgian partial referral authorities (Article 9 of Regulation 139/2004) of the examination of EdF's takeover of Segebel, the second largest Belgian electricity company, and the second declaring this concentration compatible with the common market, the European Union Court of First Instance came to specify the conditions in which consumer associations have the right to be heard by the Commission in the context of the examination of a merger. In the case in point,