Judgment_paragraph 63 · Italian Republic v Council of the European Union and Commission of the European Communities (C-100/99)

63As regards the statement of reasons for a measure whereby the Community legislature makes such choices, it should be borne in mind that, while it is true that it must show clearly and unequivocally the reasoning of the Community authority which adopted the contested measure so as to enable the persons concerned to ascertain the reasons for it and to enable the Court to exercise judicial review, the authority is not required to go into every relevant point of fact and law. More particularly, it is not possible to require that the statement of reasons should set out the various facts, often very numerous and complex, on the basis of which a regulation was adopted, or a fortiori that it should provide a more or less complete evaluation of those facts (see, in particular, Case C-372/96 Portillo [1998] ECR I-5091, paragraph 36).