Fines: The Court of Justice of the European Union validates the retroactive application of the Guidelines on fines (ORI Martin et Siderurgica Latina Martin, Trafilerie Meridionali)

*This article is an automatic translation of the original article, provided here for your convenience. Read the original article. Of those appeals concerning the prestressing steel case, the Court of Justice validated the application by the Court of First Instance of the 2006 Guidelines on the method of setting fines instead of the 1998 Guidelines on fines, for cartel acts implemented up to 2002. That application had the effect, as regards the applicants in Cases C-490/15 P and C-505/15 P, of increasing the