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<strong>de</strong>l volumen <strong>de</strong> negocios total realizado durante el ejerciciosocial anterior, <strong>de</strong> conformidad con lo dispuesto en elartículo 23, apartado 2, <strong>de</strong>l Reglamento (CE) no 1/2003.” (el<strong>de</strong>stacado es nuestro)Cabe hacer presente, que la “jurispru<strong>de</strong>ncia europea haconsi<strong>de</strong>rado que este límite preten<strong>de</strong> prevenir que las multas sean<strong>de</strong>sproporcionadas en relación al tamaño <strong>de</strong>l negocio y ya que el totalrealizado durante el ejercicio social anterior pue<strong>de</strong> efectivamenteentregar una indicación aproximada <strong>de</strong> dicho volumen, el porcentajerecién mencionado <strong>de</strong>be ser consi<strong>de</strong>rado en relación al total realizadodurante el ejercicio anterior.” 34De esta forma, el criterio recientemente expuesto adquiereespecial relevancia pues siguiendo este criterio, aún en el eventoimprobable que el H. <strong>Tribunal</strong> estime que nuestras34 Wils, Wouter P.J. The European Commision’s 2006 Gui<strong>de</strong>lines on Antitrust Fines: ALegal and Economic Analysis. Public Lecture King’s College London Centre of EuropeanLaw. En http://papers.ssrn.com, 15 <strong>de</strong> Febrero <strong>de</strong> 2007. Página 38: “The Court ofJustice has held that this limit seeks to prevent fines from being disproportionate inrelation to the size of the un<strong>de</strong>rtaking and since only the total turnover can effectivelygive an approximate indication of that size, the aforementioned percentage must [… ]be un<strong>de</strong>rstood as referring to the total turnover.”El autor cita: Judgment of 7 June 1983 in Joined Cases 100-103/80 MusiqueDiffusion française v Commission [1983] ECR 1825, paragraph 119; see alsoJudgments of the Court of First Instance of 15 June 2005 in Joined Cases T-71/03 etc.Tokai Carbon and Others v Commission (Specialty graphite) [2005] ECR II-10,paragraphs 388-390, and of 29 November 2005 in Case T-33/02 Britannia Alloys &Chemicals v Commission (Zinc phosphate), not yet reported, paragraphs 33 to 52; seefurther 'Optimal Antitrust Fines: Theory and Practice', as note 21 above, at 196-199(on the requirements of proportional justice and other reasons for avoiding excessivelyhigh fines) and The Optimal Enforcement of EC Antitrust Law, as note 1 above, at 44and 159 (on the origin of the 10 % limit in the ECSC Treaty, and the suggestion ma<strong>de</strong>by the OECD Competition Law and Policy Division in 1999 to raise the 10 % ceiling);see also I. Bos and M.P. Schinkel, 'On the Scope for the European Commission's 2006Fining Gui<strong>de</strong>lines un<strong>de</strong>r the Legal Fine Maximum', Amsterdam Center for Law &Economics Working Paper No. 2006-13 (2006).75

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