Fine calculation: The GCEU validates the first enforcement by the Commission of point 18 of the 2006 Guidelines on the method of setting fines regarding the method to be applied when the geographic scope of an infringement extends beyond the EEA (ICF/Fluorsid/Minmet)

*This article is an automatic translation of the original article, provided here for your convenience. Read the original article. TEU, 18 June 2013, Judgment in Case T-404/08 (Fluorsid SpA and Minmet financing Co.) By two judgments delivered on 18 June 2013, the Court of First Instance dismissed the actions for annulment and variation against the decision of 25 June 2008, by which the Commission, following implementation of its leniency programme, imposed fines of €4.97 million on the producers of aluminium fluoride for participating in a price-fixing cartel. Aluminium fluoride is a chemical used to lower the melting temperature of aluminium. Three of the four companies penalised by the Commission brought actions for annulment before the Court of First Instance. These two judgments are