348It follows that, in the circumstances of the present case, since the Commission decided to determine the basic amount of the fine by applying a figures-based model in which the reduction factor plays an essential role, it was necessary that the undertakings concerned be placed in a position to understand how it had arrived at a reduction factor set precisely at 98.849% and that the Court be in a position to carry out an in-depth review, in law and in fact, of that factor of the contested decision, in accordance with the case-law cited in paragraph 316 above.
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