73The Italian Republic considers, furthermore, that the judgment in Case C-269/97Commission v Council [2000] ECR I-2257, in which the Court held that Articles 33 EC and 37 EC could serve as a legal basis for the adoption of a measure with perhaps the principal aim of protecting public health, may be applied to the present case. It also follows from Articles 2 EC, 136 EC and 137 EC that Articles 33 EC and 37 EC can constitute the exclusive legal basis for the adoption of measures which also have a social purpose, even predominantly so, on condition that they employ provisions relating to the regulation and to intervention on agricultural markets, which is the case of the contested regulation.