Judgment_paragraph 46 · Société française de transports Gondrand Frères SA v Commission of the European Communities (T-104/02)

46It argues in that regard that the following two ‘basic principles’ govern the grant of remissions on grounds of fairness. First, in the Commission's submission, a situation of an objective nature, which applies to an indefinite number of traders, does not constitute a special situation for the purposes of the fairness clause (Case 58/86 Coopérative agricole d'approvisionnement des Avirons [1987] ECR 1525, paragraph 22). Second, any errors or omissions on the part of the administrative authorities cannot give rise to the application of the fairness clause unless such errors or omissions imposed upon a trader a financial obligation which he had no legal means of contesting (Joined Cases 244/85 and 245/85 Cerealmangimi and Italgrani v Commission [1987] ECR 1303, paragraph 17).