Judgment_paragraph 79 · The Queen, on the application of International Air Transport Association and European Low Fares Airline Association v Department for Transport (C-344/04)

79The principle of proportionality, which is one of the general principles of Community law, requires that measures implemented through Community provisions should be appropriate for attaining the objective pursued and must not go beyond what is necessary to achieve it (see, inter alia, Case C-210/00 Käserei Champignon Hofmeister [2002] ECR I-6453, paragraph 59; Case C-491/01 British American Tobacco (Investments) and Imperial Tobacco [2002] ECR I-11463, paragraph 122; and Swedish Match, paragraph 47).