60The Court has also held that the obligation to state reasons laid down in Article 296(2) TFEU is an essential procedural requirement, as distinct from the question whether the reasons given are correct, which goes to the substantive legality of the contested measure (see, to that effect, Case C-113/00 Spain v Commission [2002] ECR I-7601, paragraph 47, and France v Council, paragraph 50).
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