38However, partial annulment of an act of EU law is possible only if the elements which it is sought to have annulled can be severed from the remainder of the measure. That requirement is not satisfied where the partial annulment of a measure would cause the substance of that measure to be altered, a point which must be determined on the basis of an objective criterion and not of a subjective criterion linked to the political intention of the authority which adopted the measure at issue (see, to that effect, Case C-244/03 France v Parliament and Council [2005] ECR I-4021, paragraphs 12 to 14, and Commission v Département du Loiret, paragraphs 105 and 106).
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