Judgment_paragraph 55 · Commission of the European Communities v European Parliament and Council of the European Union (C-178/03)

55As regards the fact, referred to by the defendants, that other Community measures, such as Regulations Nos 259/93 and 338/97, or Regulation No 2455/92, which preceded the contested regulation, have a legal basis relating to environmental policy, it is entirely irrelevant in the context of the present case. In fact, according to settled case-law, the legal basis for an act must be determined having regard to its own aim and content and not to the legal basis used for the adoption of other Community measures which might, in certain cases, display similar characteristics (see, in particular, Case C-187/93 Parliament v Council [1994] ECR I-2857, paragraph 28, regarding, specifically, the choice of legal basis for Regulation No 259/93).