68When the Commission enjoys a wide discretion of that kind, the Court, in reviewing the legality of exercise of that power, cannot substitute its own assessment in that matter for that of the competent authority but must confine itself to examining whether the latter assessment contains a manifest error or constitutes a misuse of powers or whether the authority in question clearly exceeded the bounds of its discretion (see Case C-288/96 Germany v Commission, cited above, paragraph 26, and Joined Cases C-27/00 and C-122/00 Omega Air and Others [2002] ECR I-2569, paragraph 64).
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