392As regards the applicant’s assertion that, in the absence of relevant precedents, the longstanding practice of the Courts of the European Union and of the Commission has been to refrain from imposing any fine or to impose only a symbolic fine, it must be stated that there is no established practice in that sense. Admittedly, there are cases in which the Commission did not impose any fine or imposed a symbolic fine in the absence of precedents. However, in other cases, the Commission has imposed large fines even in situations in which there were no precedents in relation to conduct with the same features.