135The Italian Republic argues that the contested letters infringe the obligation laid down in Article 253 EC to state the reasons on which a Community measure is based, as interpreted by Community case-law, in so far as there is nothing in those letters to justify the decisions contained therein. In the present case, it was for the Commission to provide explicit reasoning in the contested letters since the change in the regulatory framework had occurred shortly before their adoption as a result of the entry into force of Regulation No 448/2004 and since the scope of the decisions contained in those letters goes appreciably further than earlier decisions (Case 73/74Fabricants de papiers peints v Commission [1975] ECR 1491, paragraph 31).