Brussels, 23/06/2010 (Agence Europe) - On Wednesday 23 June, the European Commission re-adopted a decision fining Bolloré €21.26 million for its participation in price-fixing and market-sharing agreements in the carbonless paper sector, following the annulment of the previous December 2009 decision by the European Court of Justice for procedural reasons in December 2009 (see (EUROPE 9970). The European Court of Justice considered that Bolloré's rights of defence were infringed because it was not able to exercise its right to defend itself at its appeal to the European Court of First Instance. After sending a new statement of objections on 15 December 2009, the Commission re-issued the decision correcting the procedural error which led to the annulment of the 2001 decision. As during the re-adoption procedure Bolloré no longer contested the participation of its former subsidiary Copigraph in the early stage of the cartel, the reduction for cooperation under the 1996 Leniency Notice was increased from 20% to 25%. The fine of Bolloré is thereby reduced from €22.68 million to €21.26 million. Along with nine other companies (see EUROPE 8118), Bolloré took part in a price-fixing cartel for “self-copying paper” that was fined a total of €313.7 million by the Commission. (F.G./transl.fl)