51In that connection, it is clear from the judgment in Case C-298/98 P Finnboard v Commission [2000] ECR I-10157, and in particular from paragraphs 56, 59 and 60 thereof, that the Commission may, for the purpose of fixing the amount of a fine, take account of the assistance given to it by the undertaking concerned to establish the existence of the infringement with less difficulty and, in particular, of the fact that an undertaking admitted its participation in the infringement. It may grant an undertaking which has assisted it in that way a significant reduction of the amount of its fine and grant a substantially lesser reduction to another undertaking which did no more than fail to deny the main factual allegations on which the Commission based its objections.
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