77In addition, as the Advocate General pointed out in point 113 of his Opinion, the General Court is bound, when exercising its unlimited jurisdiction, by certain requirements. Those requirements include the duty to state reasons, by which it is bound in accordance with Article 36 of the Statute of the Court, applicable to the General Court under the first paragraph of Article 53 of the Statute, and the principle of equal treatment. When the amount of the fine imposed on them is determined, the exercise of unlimited jurisdiction cannot result in discrimination between undertakings which have participated in an infringement of the competition rules (Sarrió v Commission, C‑291/98 P, EU:C:2000:631, paragraph 97).
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