Judgment_paragraph 68 · European Commission v Council of the European Union (C-114/12)

68According to the Court’s case-law, there is a risk that common EU rules might be adversely affected by international commitments, or that the scope of those rules might be altered, which is such as to justify an exclusive external competence of the European Union, where those commitments fall within the scope of those rules (see, to that effect, the judgments in ERTA, EU:C:1971:32, paragraph 30; and in Commission v Denmark, EU:C:2002:625, paragraph 82).