124As the Court of Justice ruled in Case C-137/92 P Commission v BASF and Others [1994] ECR I-2555, paragraphs 66 to 68, the operative part and the statement of reasons of a decision — which must be reasoned under Article 253 EC — constitute an indivisible whole, with the result that it is for the College of Commissioners alone, in accordance with the principle of collegiate responsibility, to adopt both the one and the other, any alternation to the statement of reasons going beyond simple corrections of spelling or grammar being the exclusive province of that college.
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