Judgment_paragraph 77 · National Iranian Oil Company v Council of the European Union (C-440/14 P)

77As a preliminary point, it must be recalled that, as the Court has held, the Union legislature must be allowed a broad discretion in areas which involve political, economic and social choices on its part, and in which it is called upon to undertake complex assessments. It concluded from this that the legality of a measure adopted in those fields can be affected only if the measure is manifestly inappropriate having regard to the objective which the competent institution is seeking to pursue (judgments in Sison v Council, C‑266/05 P, EU:C:2007:75, paragraph 33, and Council v Manufacturing Support & Procurement Kala Naft, C‑348/12 P, EU:C:2013:776, paragraph 120).