I. Introduction The General Court (GC) of the European Union condemned the European Commission to pay to the undertaking Idromacchine damages caused to its reputation by the mention of confidential information in the decision published in the Official Journal of the European Union (OJ).1 The GC has considered that the Commission services had acted in breach of Article 287 EC, now Article 339 of the TFEU. After recalling the particularities of the case