72While acknowledging that the provisions of the contested directive relating to self-employed drivers, the only ones challenged in the present case, are based on Article 137(2) EC as well as on Article 71 EC, it must be pointed out that the provision of the EC Treaty referred to in the preceding paragraph indeed means that the particular economic interests of small and medium-sized undertakings are to be taken into account when measures falling under Article 137(1)(a) EC are adopted, but does not preclude those undertakings from being the subject of binding measures (see, with respect to the second subparagraph of Article 118(2) of the EC Treaty (Articles 117 to 120 of the EC Treaty have been replaced by Articles 136 EC to 143 EC), Case C-84/94 United Kingdom v Council [1996] ECR I-5755, paragraph 44).
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