Judgment_paragraph 30 · European Parliament v European Commission (C-286/14)

30In that regard, it is necessary, in the first place, to observe that, according to the case-law of the Court, it is clear from Article 290(1) TFEU that a legislative act may delegate to the Commission the power to adopt non-legislative acts of general scope which supplement or amend certain non-essential elements of the legislative act. In accordance with the second subparagraph of that provision, the objectives, content, scope and duration of the delegation of power must be explicitly defined in the legislative act granting such a delegation. That requirement implies that the purpose of granting a delegated power is to achieve the adoption of rules coming within the regulatory framework as defined by the basic legislative act (judgments in Commission v Parliament and Council, C‑427/12, EU:C:2014:170, paragraph 38, and in Commission v Parliament and Council, C‑88/14, EU:C:2015:499, paragraph 29).