Judgment_paragraph 42 · Jungbunzlauer AG v Commission of the European Communities (T-43/02)

42Jungbunzlauer claims that, by virtue of the principle of legality, a corollary to the principle of legal certainty, Community legislation must be clear and foreseeable for those subject to it (Joined Cases 212/80 to 217/80 Salumi and Others [1981] ECR 2735, paragraph 10; Case 70/83 Kloppenburg [1984] ECR 1075, paragraph 11; Konecke, paragraph 40 above, paragraph 11; and Maizena, paragraph 40 above, paragraph 15) and that certainty and foreseeability are requirements which must be observed all the more strictly in the case of rules liable to entail financial consequences (Case C-30/89 Commission v France [1990] ECR I-691, paragraph 23, and case-law cited). This is particularly the case with regard to a Council provision empowering the Commission to act, which can be valid only if it is sufficiently specific, in the sense that the Council must clearly specify the bounds of the power conferred on the Commission (Case 291/86 Central-Import Münster [1988] ECR 3679, paragraph 13).