Judgment_paragraph 130 · Deutsche Telekom AG v European Commission (C-280/08 P)

130As regards, in the second place, the complaints concerning the General Court’s review of the statement of reasons for the decision at issue in relation to the intentional or negligent nature of the infringement, it must be noted that the obligation to provide a statement of reasons laid down in Article 253 EC is an essential procedural requirement which must be distinguished from the question whether the reasoning is well founded, which is concerned with the substantive legality of the measure at issue. To that end, the statement of reasons required by Article 253 EC must be appropriate to the measure at issue and must disclose in a clear and unequivocal fashion the reasoning followed by the institution which adopted that measure in such a way as to enable the persons concerned to ascertain the reasons for it and to enable the competent European Union judicature to exercise its power of review (Case C-17/99 France v Commission [2001] ECR I-2481, paragraph 35).