Judgment_paragraph 113 · United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland v European Parliament and Council of the European Union (C-270/12)

113Second, with regard to the requirement laid down in Article 114 TFEU that harmonisation measures adopted by the EU legislature must have as their object the establishment and functioning of the internal market, it should be noted that the Court stated, at paragraph 42 of Case C‑217/04 United Kingdom v Parliament and Council, that that provision may be used as a legal basis only where it is actually and objectively apparent from the legal act that its purpose is to improve the conditions for the establishment and functioning of the internal market.