96The defendant further observes that, in its judgment in Case T-182/96 Partex v Commission [1999] ECR II-2673, at paragraphs 76 to 78, the Court held that earlier measures adopted by the national authorities could be regarded as contributing to the reasons for a decision to reduce assistance, provided that the decision in question referred clearly to those measures and in so far as the beneficiary of the assistance was able to take cognisance of them. That reasoning is even more valid as regards the first check report, on which the applicant was able to express its views and to which the fifth recital in the preamble to the contested decision refers clearly. Account should therefore also be taken, in assessing the adequacy of the statement of reasons on which the decision in question is based, of that report, which describes the irregularity in question in clear terms consistent with those used in that decision, and of the letter of 17 August 1999 (see paragraph 20 above), by which the Commission again set out its views on the irregularities found.
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