Keywords

• Agreements, decisions and concerted practices
• Duration of the infringement
• Principle of equal treatment
• Appeals
• Infringement of the rights of the defence
• Obligation to state the reasons on which the decision is based
• Guidelines on the method of setting fines
• Principle of proportionality.
• Distortion of the clear sense of the evidence
• Regulation No 17
• Article 15(2)
• Participation in the infringement
• Carbonless paper
• Inconsistency between the statement of objections and the contested decision
• Consequences
• Reasonable period for duration of proceedings before the Court of First Instance.