34This requirement of a sufficiently serious breach of Community law, within the meaning of Bergaderm and Goupil v Commission, paragraph 33 above, is intended, whatever the nature of the unlawful act at issue, to avoid the risk of having to bear the losses claimed by the persons concerned obstructing the institution’s ability to exercise to the full its powers in the general interest, whether that be in its legislative activity, or in that involving choices of economic policy or in the sphere of its administrative competence, without however thereby leaving individuals to bear the consequences of flagrant and inexcusable misconduct (see, to this effect, Schneider Electric v Commission, paragraph 28 above, paragraph 125; MyTravel v Commission, paragraph 31 above, paragraph 42; and Artegodan v Commission, paragraph 32 above, paragraph 55).
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