49In response to the applicant's arguments regarding Article 3 of the general implementing provisions, the Parliament acknowledges that an identical version of that article was declared illegal by the judgment of the Court of First Instance in Case T-75/89Brems v Council [1990] ECR II-899, paragraph 29. It contends, however, that Article 3 cannot have been the basis of the individual decision challenged by the applicant since the children of his partner, being under 18 years of age, fall squarely within the scope of the said Article 3. It was therefore not pursuant to that provision that the applicant's application was rejected.