24In addition, it is settled case-law that the reasons on which a decision which follows a well-established line of decisions is based may be given in a summary manner, for example by a reference to those decisions (see judgment of 14 February 1990 in Delacre and Others v Commission, C‑350/88, ECR, EU:C:1990:71, paragraph 15 and the case-law cited, and judgment of 8 November 2001 in Silos, C‑228/99, ECR, EU:C:2001:599, paragraph 28). In the judgment in Delacre and Others v Commission, cited above (EU:C:1990:71, paragraph 19), the Court of Justice observed that, in the circumstances of that case, the reference in the contested decision to the legal base applicable fulfils the requirement that reasons must be stated and that it was not necessary to state the specific reasons for the modification of the amount of the aid in question compared with previous individual invitations to tender. The Court of Justice held, in paragraph 17 of that judgment, that the fixing of the maximum amounts of the aid ‘constitute[d] a uniform procedure which [was] repeated approximately every two weeks, in which decisions [were] taken on the basis of explicit criteria contained in rules with which the trade circles concerned [were] perfectly familiar and neither the mode of adoption nor the contents of those decisions differ[ed] to any appreciable extent’.
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