Judgment_paragraph 34 · SGL Carbon AG v Commission of the European Communities (C-308/04)

34In that respect, it should be stated, as the Court of First Instance correctly observed in paragraph 136 of the judgment under appeal, that there is no principle of public international law that prevents the public authorities, including the courts, of different States from trying and convicting the same natural or legal person on the basis of the same facts as those for which that person has already been tried in another State. In addition, there is no public international law convention under which the Commission could be obliged, upon setting a fine under Article 15(2) of Regulation No 17, to take account of fines imposed by the authorities of non-member States pursuant to their competition law powers.