Judgment_paragraph 68 · Commission of the European Communities v CAS Succhi di Frutta SpA (C-496/99 P)

68It must be pointed out that, in accordance with the case-law of the Court of Justice, where one of the grounds adopted by the Court of First Instance is sufficient to sustain the operative part of its judgment, any defects that might vitiate other grounds given in the judgment concerned in any event have no bearing on that operative part and, accordingly, a plea relying on such defects is ineffective and must be dismissed (see, inter alia, Case C-326/91 P De Compte v Parliament [1994] ECR I-2091, paragraph 94, and order in Case C-49/96 P Progoulis v Commission [1996] ECR I-6803, paragraph 27).