Judgment_paragraph 46 · Commission of the European Communities v Council of the European Union (C-281/01)

46Furthermore, the fact that the Treaty provisions relating to environmental policy have been chosen as the legal basis for the adoption of internal measures such as Regulations No 880/92 and No 1980/2000 is not sufficient to establish that the same basis must be used when approving an international agreement with similar subject-matter. Suffice it to state that, as observed by the Advocate General in point 78 of his Opinion, since Article 133 EC relates to external trade, it could not in any event serve as legal basis for a measure whose effects are purely internal to the Community. With regard specifically to completion of the internal market, recourse should be had, where appropriate, to Article 95 EC. It was, moreover, Article 100a of the EC Treaty (now, after amendment, Article 95 EC) that was chosen as the legal basis for the adoption of Council Directive 92/75/EEC of 22 September 1992 on the indication by labelling and standard product information of the consumption of energy and other resources by household appliances (OJ 1992 L 297, p. 16).