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After receiving the Statement of Objections, UCB informed the Commission that it did not substantially contest the facts on which the Commission based its allegations, except for certain factual corrections which the Commission has accepted. However, in the same submission UCB claimed that, although it participated in a number of meetings at the global level, it was never a party to any agreement at the global level. In the Decision, the Commission has rejected this claim as unfounded. Therefore, as UCB did in fact, after receiving the Statement of Objections, contest an essential element of the facts on which the Commission based its allegations, it does not receive any reduction for not contesting the facts on which the Commission bases its allegations.