482However, the principle of legal certainty requires that, if there is no evidence directly establishing the duration of an infringement, the Commission should adduce at least evidence of facts sufficiently proximate in time for it to be reasonable to accept that that infringement continued uninterruptedly between two specific dates (Case T-43/92 Dunlop Slazenger v Commission [1994] ECR II-441, paragraph 79; Case T-62/98 Volkswagen v Commission [2000] ECR II-2707, paragraph 188; Case T-279/02 Degussa v Commission [2006] ECR II-897, paragraphs 114 and 153; and IMI and Others v Commission, paragraph 413 above, paragraph 88).
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