228Therefore, contrary to what the applicant maintains, the case-law does not show that a fine may be reduced in consideration of conduct adopted subsequently to the issuing of the decision imposing a fine. Such a reduction, even if it were possible, could in any event be operated by the Community judicature only with great care and in altogether exceptional circumstances, particularly because such a practice could be perceived as an incentive to commit infringements while speculating on a possible reduction in the fine by reason of alteration of the undertaking's conduct after the decision.