. SINCE IN ITS CASE THE RATIO BETWEEN THE QUOTA FOR DELIVERY IN THE COMMON MARKET AND THE PRODUCTION QUOTA IS HIGHER THAN THE COMMUNITY AVERAGE, THE APPLICANT BENEFITS MUCH LESS FROM THE CONTESTED DECISION THAN UNDERTAKINGS WHICH ARE STRONGLY BIASED TOWARDS EXPORTING AND THE APPLICATION OF THE DECISION IMPAIRS ITS RELATIVE POSITION ON THE MARKET . THAT DAMAGE IS IRREPARABLE BECAUSE THE CONTESTED DECISION DISTURBS THE MARKET IRREMEDIABLY AND PERMANENTLY IMPAIRS ITS POSITION ON THE MARKET AND IF THE DECISION IS DECLARED VOID IT WILL NOT BE POSSIBLE TO RESTORE THE ECONOMIC SITUATION AND ITS MARKET POSITION .
15 WHEN ASKED AT THE HEARING TO EXPLAIN ITS POSITION, THE APPLICANT NO LONGER MAINTAINED THAT ITS MARKET POSITION WOULD SUFFER PERMANENT DETERIORATION EVEN IF THE CONTESTED DECISION WERE TO BE DECLARED VOID, OR THAT THE APPLICATION OF THE DECISION HAD LED TO A FALL IN PRICES . IT EMPHASIZED ESPECIALLY THAT THE ABATEMENT RATES USED FOR ESTABLISHING PRODUCTION QUOTAS AND THE PART OF SUCH QUOTAS WHICH MIGHT BE DELIVERED IN THE COMMON MARKET HAD ALREADY INCREASED BETWEEN THE SECOND AND THIRD QUARTERS OF 1987 FOLLOWING THE ADOPTION OF THE CONTESTED DECISION, AND THAT ITS RELATIVE POSITION ON THE MARKET WAS UNDER THREAT SINCE THE INCREASE IN THE QUANTITIES WHICH MIGHT BE DELIVERED ON THE COMMUNITY MARKET WOULD, GIVEN STEADY DEMAND, INEVITABLY CAUSE THE COMMISSION TO CONTINUE TO INCREASE THE ABATEMENT RATES .
16 THE COMMISSION ARGUES THAT THE BALANCE OF THE MARKET CANNOT BE DISTURBED, SINCE IT HAS IT UNDER COMPLETE CONTROL THROUGH THE USE OF ABATEMENT RATES . MOREOVER, OWING TO ITS NATURE AND THE WAY IN WHICH IT HAS BEEN APPLIED SO FAR, THE DECISION HAS HAD ONLY A SLIGHT IMPACT ON THE MARKET . THE FACT THAT THE MODIFIED ABATEMENT RATES FOR THE THIRD QUARTER OF 1987 WERE MORE FAVOURABLE THAN THE ORIGINAL RATES SHOWS THAT THE IMPLEMENTATION OF THE DECISION HAS NOT GIVEN RISE TO A SIGNIFICANT INCREASE IN SUPPLY ON THE COMMUNITY MARKET OR DISTURBED THAT MARKET . LIKEWISE, THE INCREASE IN PRICES WITHIN THE COMMON MARKET FROM THE FIRST TO THE SECOND QUARTER SHOWS THAT THE DECISION HAS NOT HAD AN ADVERSE EFFECT ON PRICES . THE DETERIORATION IN RELATIVE POSITION IS MINIMAL AND, MOREOVER, SIMPLY AN INEVITABLE CONSEQUENCE OF THE QUOTA SYSTEM . IN VIEW OF THE CONTESTED DECISION' S MODEST IMPACT ON THE APPLICANT' S RELATIVE POSITION ON THE COMMON MARKET, IT CANNOT CLAIM THAT THE ALLEGED DAMAGE IS IRREPARABLE .
17 IT APPEARS FROM THE ARGUMENTS PRESENTED BY THE PARTIES AT THE HEARING THAT THE APPLICANT HAS SO FAR NOT SUCCEEDED IN ESTABLISHING ACTUAL AND SPECIFIC DAMAGE; IT MERELY REFERS TO FUTURE DAMAGE WHICH, IN ITS VIEW, IS BOUND TO OCCUR IN THE COMING MONTHS AS A RESULT OF INCREASES IN THE ABATEMENT RATES WHICH THE COMMISSION WILL CERTAINLY HAVE TO INTRODUCE .
18 IN THAT REGARD, IT MUST BE POINTED OUT THAT THE CONTESTED DECISION WILL NOT HAVE AN EFFECT UNTIL 31 DECEMBER 1987 . THE APPLICANT' S FEARS THAT