Judgment_paragraph 205 · Ahmed Abdelaziz Ezz and Others v Council of the European Union (T-256/11)

205The principle of proportionality, as one of the general principles of EU law, requires that measures adopted by the EU institutions do not exceed the limits of what is appropriate and necessary in order to attain the objectives pursued by the legislation in question. Consequently, when there is a choice between several appropriate measures, recourse must be had to the least onerous, and the disadvantages caused must not be disproportionate to the aims pursued (see Case C-189/01 Jippes and Others [2001] ECR I-5689, paragraph 81, and the judgment of 6 May 2010 in Case T‑388/07 Comune di Napoli v Commission, not published in the ECR, paragraph 143).