145Secondly, in so far as concerns the alleged breach of the principle of equal treatment, the Court must hold, first, that as regards the applicant’s comparisons with other Commission decisions imposing fines, and in particular in light of the relationship between the combined value of the fines and the volume of the market concerned, those decisions can be relevant from the point of view of observance of the principle of equal treatment only if it is demonstrated that the facts of the cases in those other decisions, such as the markets, products, the countries, the undertakings and periods concerned, are comparable to those of the present case (see, to that effect, Case T-59/02 Archer Daniels Midland v Commission [2006] ECR II-3627, paragraph 316).
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