28Lastly, with respect to a concrete assessment of the detailed rules and time-limits prescribed for the withdrawal of authorisations to place plant protection products containing the active substance ‘aldicarb’ on the market, it must be borne in mind that the general principle of proportionality requires that measures adopted by Community institutions do not exceed the limits of what is appropriate and necessary in order to attain the legitimate objectives pursued by the legislation in question; when there is a choice between several appropriate measures, recourse must be had to the least onerous, and the disadvantages caused must not be disproportionate to the aims pursued (see Case 265/87 Schräder [1989] ECR 2237, paragraph 21; Case C-331/88 Fedesa and Others [1990] ECR I-4023, paragraph 13; Joined Cases C-133/93, C-300/93 and C-362/93 Crispoltoni and Others [1994] ECR I-4863, paragraph 41; and Case C-189/01 Jippes and Others [2001] ECR I-5689, paragraph 81).
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