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The application of the principle of proportionality would normally imply that the Parties are allowed to choose at which airport to surrender slots, provided that this is sufficient to solve the competition concerns. However, in the present case, the Commission has considered that, with respect to the Paris airports, in order to ensure the effectiveness of the remedies proposed, slots should also, under certain conditions, be surrendered at Orly to competitors who already offer services on the affected routes out of this airport, in order to allow them to increase their number of services. This explains why the commitments provide that a competitor is entitled to obtain slots at Orly if it already operates flights on an affected route out of Orly and if it has all its scheduled flights serving Paris operated out of this airport.