75As the Advocate General has stated in points 169 and 170 of her Opinion, the General Court did not commit an error of law when, in paragraphs 118 to 129 of the judgment under appeal, it recalled and applied the settled case-law of the European Union judicature that neither the 1998 Guidelines nor the Commission’s practice as regards the level of the fines imposed in competition matters infringe the principle of non-retroactivity or the principle of the protection of legitimate expectations (see Dansk Rørindustri and Others v Commission, paragraphs 217, 218 and 227 to 231; Archer Daniels Midland and Archer Daniels Midland Ingredients v Commission, paragraph 25; and Case C-3/06 P Groupe Danone v Commission [2007] ECR I-1331, paragraphs 87 to 92).
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