35When reviewing the exercise of such a power, the European Union Court may not substitute its own assessment for that of the European Union legislature, and must confine itself to examining whether the legislature’s assessment contains a manifest error or constitutes a misuse of powers or whether the legislature clearly exceeded the bounds of its legislative discretion (see, to that effect, Case C-122/94 Commission v Council [1996] ECR I-881, paragraph 18; Case C-84/94 United Kingdom v Council [1996] ECR I-5755, paragraph 58; SAM Schiffahrt and Stapf, paragraph 24; and Joined Cases C-27/00 and C-122/00 Omega Air and Others [2002] ECR I-2569, paragraph 64).
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