178As the Commission was correct to observe, the General Court did not err in law in finding, at paragraph 413 of the judgment under appeal, that the fact that the relevant geographic market is restricted to Spain does not mean that the infringement cannot be classified as ‘very serious’. The mere fact that, in the Deutsche Telekom and Wanadoo decisions, the Commission classified the infringements in question as ‘serious’, even though the relevant geographic markets were larger than that in question in the present case, does not affect that assessment, as the classification of an infringement as ‘serious’ or ‘very serious’ does not depend only on the size of the relevant geographic market but also, as correctly observed by the General Court at paragraph 413 of the judgment under appeal, other criteria characterising the infringement.
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