Mitigation of the fine: The CFI rules on whether a request to reduce the fine can lead to an increase of the fine (Danone)

*This article is an automatic translation of the original article, provided here for your convenience. Read the original article. The Tribunal's judgment in the Groupe Danone case will be a landmark not only for what it says but also for what it does. What it says - i.e. the lessons, clarifications and reminders it contains about the law of fines - will not be commented on in detail here. We will therefore confine ourselves to pointing out that the two pleas in law relied on by Groupe Danone in support of its application for annulment of the Commission's decision on the Belgian beer market (Comm. EC, Dec. No 2003/569/EC of 5 Dec. 2001, PO/Interbrew and Alken-Maes, Case IV/37.614/F3, OJ L 200 of 7 August 2003, p. (1), alleging infringement of the rights of the defence and of the