97As regards, in the third place, the allegedly disproportionate effects of the prohibition on the use of menthol as a characterising flavour, on account of the negative economic and social consequences to which that prohibition would give rise, it must be noted that, even though it has, in the present case, a broad legislative power, the EU legislature must base its choice on objective criteria and examine whether aims pursued by the measure chosen are such as to justify even substantial negative economic consequences for certain operators (see, to that effect, judgment in Luxembourg v Parliament and Council, C‑176/09, EU:C:2011:290, paragraph 63 and the case-law cited).
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