46Next, with regard to the applicant’s reference to earlier decisions of the Commission where no fine, or only a symbolic fine, was imposed, it must be observed that the Commission’s practice in previous decisions does not itself serve as a legal framework for the fines imposed in competition matters and that decisions in other cases can give only an indication for the purpose of determining whether there might be discrimination since the facts of those cases, such as markets, products, the undertakings and periods concerned, are not likely to be the same (Case C-167/04 P JCB Service v Commission [2006] ECR I-8935, paragraphs 201 and 205, and Case C-76/06 P Britannia Alloys and Chemicals v Commission [2007] ECR I-4405, paragraph 60).
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