49Second, as regards FLS Plast’s line of argument that when an action for annulment of a measure adopted by a European Union body has been brought before the General Court, it is required to raise of its own motion an objection relating to legally insufficient reasoning, it should be recalled that, according to the Court of Justice’s settled case-law, the purpose of the obligation to state the reasons on which an act adversely affecting an individual is based, which is a corollary of the principle of respect for the rights of the defence, is, first, to provide the person concerned with sufficient information to make it possible to ascertain whether the act is well founded or whether it is vitiated by a defect which may permit its legality to be contested before the European Union judicature and, second, to enable that judicature to review the legality of the act (Case C‑417/11 P Council v Bamba EU:C:2012:718, paragraph 49 and the case‑law cited).
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