29The applicants point out that, when the Court of Justice interprets Community law, it has recourse to the clear meaning of the words, the legislative context, the purpose of the measure and, only in the alternative, to the legislative history (Opinion of Advocate General Tizzano in Case C-133/00 Bowden and Others [2001] ECR I-7031, I-7033, points 28 to 30). The legislative history cannot itself be considered to express clearly the intention of the authors of a regulation (Case T-102/96 Gencor v Commission [1999] ECR II-753, paragraphs 128 and 129). What matters in the present case is therefore not the way in which the EESC understood the draft regulation but the express wording of the final text of the regulation.
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