69With regard to the admissibility of this ground of appeal, while it is true that under Article 225 EC and Article 51 of the EC Statute of the Court of Justice an appeal lies on a point of law only and that, therefore, the Court of First Instance has, in principle, sole jurisdiction to find and appraise the facts, the Court of Justice nevertheless has jurisdiction to review the legal characterisation of those facts by the Court of First Instance and the legal conclusions it has drawn from them (see, among others, Case C-7/95 P Deere v Commission [1998] ECR I-3111, paragraph 21, and Case C-449/99 P EIB v Hautem [2001] ECR I-6733, paragraphs 44 and 45).
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