461That claim must be rejected. The applicants cannot find any support in the fact that proceedings were not brought against other undertakings. It follows from the foregoing considerations that the Commission has gathered sufficient evidence justifying the proceedings brought against the applicants. Even on the assumption that the situation of some traders against which proceedings were not brought was comparable to that of the applicants, it is settled case-law that the fact that a trader who was in a position similar to that of an applicant was not found by the Commission to have committed any infringement cannot constitute a ground for setting aside the finding of an infringement by that applicant, provided it was properly established (Ahlström Osakeyhtiö and Others v Commission, paragraph 176 above, paragraph 146; Case T-17/99 KE KELIT v Commission [2002] ECR II-1647, paragraph 101; and judgment of 15 June 2005 in Joined Cases T-71/03, T-74/03, T-87/03 and T-91/03 Tokai Carbon and Others v Commission, not published in the ECR, paragraph 397), the circumstances of that trader not even being the subject of proceedings before the Court (see Case T-304/02 Hoek Loos v Commission [2006] ECR II-1887, paragraph 62 and the case-law cited).
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