Judgment_paragraph 106 · United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland v European Parliament and Council of the European Union (C-270/12)

106As the applicant maintains, inter alia, that Article 114 TFEU cannot serve as the legal basis for the adoption of measures that are legally binding on individuals, it should be recalled that, in Case C-359/92 Germany v Council [1994] ECR I-3681, paragraph 37, the Court held that, in certain fields, the approximation of general laws alone may not be sufficient to ensure the unity of the market. Consequently, the concept of ‘measures for the approximation’ of legislation must be interpreted as encompassing the EU legislature’s power to lay down measures relating to a specific product or class of products as well as, if necessary, individual measures concerning those products.