270ADM submits that the third indent of paragraph 3 of the Guidelines recognises that ‘termination of the infringement as soon as the Commission intervenes (in particular when it carries out checks)’ is an attenuating circumstance. It takes the view that in the present case, it should have benefited from that attenuating circumstance, given that it put an end to the infringement as soon as the United States competition authorities intervened. In addition, the facts of the present case are almost identical to those of the Amino Acids case (Commission Decision 2001/418/EC of 7 June 2000 relating to a proceeding pursuant to Article 81 of the EC Treaty and Article 53 of the EEA Agreement (Case COMP/36.545/F3 — Amino Acids) (OJ 2001 L 152, p. 24, ‘the Amino Acids case’)), in which the Commission reduced the fines by 10%. Further, ADM relies on the judgment in Case T-31/99ABB Asea Brown Boveri v Commission [2002] ECR II-1881, paragraph 238, in which the Court of First Instance held that undertakings which had cooperated with the Commission to put an end to the cartel should be granted a reduction in their fine. Finally, contrary to the Commission's submission, there are cases in which cartels have continued after the authorities have intervened.