64As regards, more particularly, Article 296 EC, it must be observed that, although that article refers to measures which a Member State may consider necessary for the protection of the essential interests of its security or of information the disclosure of which it considers contrary to those interests, that article cannot however be read in such a way as to confer on Member States a power to depart from the provisions of the Treaty based on no more than reliance on those interests (Commission v Greece, paragraph 52).
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