Judgment_paragraph 102 · United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland v European Parliament and Council of the European Union (C-270/12)

102First, by the expression ‘measures for the approximation’, the authors of the FEU Treaty intended to confer on the Union legislature, depending on the general context and the specific circumstances of the matter to be harmonised, discretion as regards the most appropriate method of harmonisation for achieving the desired result, especially in fields with complex technical features (see Case C-66/04 United Kingdom v Parliament and Council [2005] ECR I-10553, paragraph 45).