124That said, these various factors resulting from the wording of Article 9(5) of Regulation No 384/96 do not enable the question to be answered whether, nevertheless, the Council and the Commission may not be so obliged when they have recourse to sampling. That provision should therefore be interpreted by considering not only its wording but also the context in which it occurs and the objectives pursued by the rules of which it is part (see, to this effect, judgment in VEMW and Others, C‑17/03, EU:C:2005:362, paragraph 41 and the case-law cited). In this context, it is appropriate, in particular, to examine the relationship between, on the one hand, that provision and, on the other, Article 17 of Regulation No 384/96, which provides for sampling.
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