65However, the Court has already held in this regard that such an impact assessment is not binding on either the Parliament or the Council (judgment in Afton Chemical, C‑343/09, EU:C:2010:419, paragraph 57). Consequently, the EU legislature remains free to adopt measures other than those which were the subject of that impact assessment. Therefore, the mere fact that it adopted a different and, as the case may be, more onerous measure than the measures envisaged by the Commission in the impact assessment referred to in paragraph 57 of the present judgment is not such as to demonstrate that it manifestly exceeded the limits of what was necessary in order to achieve the stated objective.
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