110Last, in so far as the Kingdom of Spain asserts that the Commission did not specify the 82 calls for tenders which it had analysed, it claims in essence that there has been a breach of the obligation to state reasons. According to consistent case-law, the scope of the obligation to state reasons depends on the nature of the measure in question and on the context in which it was adopted. The statement of reasons must disclose in a clear and unequivocal fashion the reasoning followed by the institution which adopted the measure, so as to enable the Courts of the European Union to exercise their power of review and to enable the persons concerned to ascertain the reasons for the measure in order that they can defend their rights and ascertain whether or not the measure is well founded. It is not necessary for the statement of reasons to go into all the relevant facts and points of law, since the question whether the statement of reasons meets the requirements of Article 296 TFEU must be assessed with regard not only to its wording but also to its context and to all the legal rules governing the matter in question (judgments of 2 April 1998 in Commission v Sytraval and Brink’s France, C‑367/95 P, ECR, EU:C:1998:154, paragraph 63, and of 3 March 2010 in Freistaat Sachsen and Others v Commission, T‑102/07 and T‑120/07, ECR, EU:T:2010:62, paragraph 180). In the present case, since the Spanish authorities supplied all the information relating to the tenders in question and the Commission specified in the contested decision the criteria that enabled the tenders concerned to be classified as technologically neutral, the statement of reasons for that decision was sufficiently clear for the Kingdom of Spain to ascertain the reasons for the measure adopted and the Courts of the European Union to exercise their power of review.
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