Judgment_paragraph 57 · Kingdom of Spain v Council of the European Union (C-310/04)

57It is settled case-law that the statement of reasons required by Article 253 EC must be appropriate to the nature of the act at issue and must disclose in a clear and unequivocal fashion the reasoning followed by the institution which adopted the measure in question in such a way as to enable the persons concerned to ascertain the reasons for the measure and to enable the Community Court to exercise its power of review. It is not necessary for the reasoning to go into all the relevant facts and points of law, since the question whether the statement of reasons for a measure meets the requirements of Article 253 EC must be assessed with regard not only to its wording but also to its context and to all the legal rules governing the matter in question (see, inter alia, Case C-26/00 Netherlands v Commission [2005] ECR I-6527, paragraph 113 and the case-law cited).

Kingdom of Spain v Council of the European Union (C-310/04)

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