28In that connection, the Court, as the Council was right to point out, has consistently held (since its judgment in Case 5/67 Beus v Hauptzollamt München [1968] ECR 83, at p. 95) that the extent of the requirement to state reasons depends on the nature of the measure in question, and that in the case of measures intended to have general application the preamble may be limited to indicating the general situation which led to its adoption, on the one hand, and the general objectives which it is intended to achieve, on the other.
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