42In doing so, the Court of First Instance negated the effectiveness of Article 228(7) of the Treaty, as it failed to separate the application of the provision from any condition relating to its direct effect in accordance with the monist approach to the Community legal order. It is contradictory to hold that the WTO Agreements form an integral part of that legal order but at the same time to deny that they provide a basis for judicial review of subordinate Community legislation. The Court has, on several occasions (Case 40/72 Schröder [1973] ECR 125 and Case 112/80 Dürbeck [1981] ECR 1095), reviewed the legality of Community measures in the light of international agreements without first having ascertained whether the international provision in question has direct effect.
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