49Conversely, the appellant mentions various reasons which, in its submission, militate in favour of recognition of the direct effect of all or part of the WTO agreements and of the Court's power to review whether Community law complies with them:— first, reasons connected with the subject-matter of the WTO agreements and their foreseeable development: a growing number of those provisions — such as those concerning public procurement, intellectual property or particularly food safety — have an immediate impact not only on legal relations between States and their nationals but also between individuals themselves;— second, reasons relating to fairness as to the effect of the WTO dispute settlement system: it is inconsistent not to allow individuals to rely on certain provisions of the WTO agreements where, by contrast, commercial retaliation undertaken on the basis of other provisions of those agreements adversely affects undertakings in the European Union;— third, the need for consistency within the Community legal order, in which legal persons comprise not only the Member States but also their nationals (see Case 26/62 Van Gend en Loos [1963] ECR 1).
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