Judgment_paragraph 111 · Helena Rubinstein SNC and L'Oréal SA v Office for Harmonisation in the Internal Market (Trade Marks and Designs) (OHIM) (C-100/11 P)

111Secondly, it should be observed that — as the General Court correctly stated in paragraph 92 of the judgment under appeal — the obligation on OHIM, referred to in Article 73 of Regulation No 40/94, to state reasons for its decisions has the dual purpose of enabling interested parties to know the purported justification for the measure taken so as to be able to defend their rights and of enabling the Courts of the European Union to exercise their jurisdiction to review the legality of the decision.