100In so far as the applicant criticises the absence of a specific justification for the amount of EUR 32.5 million, assigned to the undertakings classified like itself in the second category, it is sufficient to recall that, according to settled case-law, the obligation to state reasons does not require the Commission to set out in its decision the figures relating to the method of calculating the fines (Sarrió v Commission, paragraph 97 above, paragraph 80, and judgment of 15 October 2002 in Limburgse Vinyl Maatschappij and Others v Commission, paragraph 97 above, paragraph 464). It follows that the Commission was not required under Article 253 EC to provide further justification for the choice of EUR 32.5 million as the starting amount of the applicant’s fine (see also, to that effect, Microsoft v Commission, paragraph 41 above, paragraph 1361).