64AST adds that the imposition of two separate fines, one on TKS and one on itself, was not justified in the light of the judgment of the Court of First Instance in Case T-354/94 Stora Kopparbergs Bergslags v Commission [1998] ECR II-2111, in so faias, first, TKS knew, when it acquired the totality of the shares in AST, that the latter had participated in the agreement, since TKS itself had been a party to it, and, second, the duration of AST's independence, when the agreement started to operate, was negligible.
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