Judgment_paragraph 725 · General Electric Company v Commission of the European Communities (T-210/01)

725It is sufficient to note in that regard that all the specific rights mentioned at paragraph 724 above were, in substance, already protected in Community law before the adoption of the Charter, which, as stated in its own preamble, merely reaffirmed them. It is settled law that fundamental rights form an integral part of the general principles of Community law whose observance the Community judicature ensures (see, in particular, Opinion 2/94 [1996] ECR I-1759, paragraph 33, and Case C-299/95 Kremzow [1997] ECR I-2629, paragraph 14). For that purpose, the Court of Justice and the Court of First Instance draw inspiration from the constitutional traditions common to the Member States and from the guidelines supplied by international treaties for the protection of human rights on which the Member States have collaborated or of which they are signatories. The ECHR has special significance in that respect (Case 222/84 Johnston [1986] ECR 1651, paragraph 18, and Kremzow, cited above, paragraph 14). Moreover, according to Article F(2) of the Treaty on European Union (now Article 6(2) EU), ‘the Union shall respect fundamental rights, as guaranteed by the European Convention for the Protection of Human Rights … and as they result from the constitutional traditions common to the Member States, as general principles of Community law’.

General Electric Company v Commission of the European Communities (T-210/01)

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