Brussels, 14/09/2001 (Agence Europe) - General Electric (GE) and Honeywell have made separate appeals before the Court of Justice of the European Communities in the hope of the latter annulling the Commission's decision that in July had prevented the merger between the two for fear of seeing emerging a group exercising too great a control on the aviation market (see EUROPE of 4 July, p.4). The two companies would like to secure from the Court the invalidation of the ruling of the European Executive. They fear in fact that its negative decision should place an obstacle to new planned GE acquisitions, as it is based on the fact that GE already held a dominant position in the manufacture of certain aircraft engines, even before the project was finalized. The Court of First Instance of the Court of Justice should not take a decision before several moths, one or two years even. For its part, the Commission declared, through Commissioner Monti's spokesperson, Amelia Torres, that its decision was "legally well founded", and is confident that the Court will agree.