Fine jurisdictional review: The ECJ acts as a double edge-sworded when asked to review the fine inflicted by the European Commission (Danone)

*This article is an automatic translation of the original article, provided here for your convenience. Read the original article. The Groupe Danone judgment, which led the Court of Justice of the European Communities to begin clearing the ground for recidivism (see this review, No. 2 2006, chron. Entente, p. 108), is also an opportunity for the Court to confirm, in terms so sober that they could almost escape the uninitiated, the revolution in the litigation of fines discreetly orchestrated by the Court of First Instance at the end of 2005 (see ConcurrencesNo. 1 2006, p. 181). The trial judge, who was asked to reduce the fine, had instead increased it. For the record, the Court of First Instance, before which the application for annulment and, in the alternative, reduction of the