88Furthermore, in view of the need to strike a balance between certain of the objectives and principles mentioned in Article 130r of the EC Treaty (now, after amendment, Article 174 EC), the Directive, having paragraph 1 of Article 130s of the Treaty as its legal basis (which was intended to achieve the objectives of Article 130r), and in view of the complexity of implementing the criteria which the Community legislature must observe in conducting environmental policy, review by the Court must necessarily be limited to the question whether the Council, by adopting the Directive, committed a manifest error of appraisal (see, to that effect, Case C-284/95 Safety Hi-Tech [1998] ECR I-4301, paragraph 37).
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