Judgment_paragraph 59 · Institut für Lernsysteme GmbH v European Union Intellectual Property Office (T-388/00)

59In addition, it must be borne in mind that the statement of reasons on which a decision adversely affecting a person is based must provide that person with the information necessary in order to know whether that decision is well founded and enable the Community Courts to exercise their power of judicial review. Accordingly, the fact that a statement of reasons is lacking or is inadequate, thereby hindering that review, constitutes a matter of public interest which may, and even must, be raised by the Community Court of its own motion (Case 18/57 Nold v High Authority [1959] ECR 41 and Case C-166/95 P Commission v Daffix [1997] ECR I-983, paragraphs 23 and 24).