Order of the Court (Fifth Chamber) of 9 March 2007 - Schneider Electric
   v Commission

   (Case C-188/06 P)

   Appeals - Concentrations between undertakings - Electricity
   distribution market - Decisions to initiate and close proceedings

   1.                     Appeals - Grounds - Review by the Court of the
   assessment of the evidence - Possible only where the clear sense of the
   evidence has been distorted (Art. 225 EC; Statute of the Court of
   Justice, Art. 58) (see para. 28)

   2.                     Appeals - Grounds - Error of law pleaded not
   identified - Inadmissible (Art. 225 EC; Statute of the Court of
   Justice, Art. 58; Rules of Procedure of the Court, Art. 112(1)(c)) (see
   paras 55, 78)

   3.                     Appeals - Pleas in law - Plea against a ground
   of the judgment not necessary to support its operative part - Plea
   inoperative (Art. 225 EC; Statute of the Court of Justice, Art. 58)
   (see paras 64, 80)

   4.                     Competition - Concentrations - Examination by
   the Commission - Decision to open the detailed examination stage
   (Council Regulation No 4064/89, Art. 6(1)(c)) (see para. 72)

   Re:

   Appeal brought against the Order of the Court of First Instance (Fourth
   Chamber) of 31 January 2006 in Case T-48/03 Schneider Electric v
   Commission , rejecting as inadmissible an application for annulment of
   the Commission's Decision of 4 December 2002 to initiate a detailed
   examination of the concentration between Schneider and Legrand (Case
   COMP/M.2283 - Schneider/Legrand II) and of the Commission's Decision of
   13 December 2002 to close the proceedings examining the concentration.

   Operative part:


   The appeal is dismissed.


   Schneider Electric SA is ordered to pay the costs.