68Secondly, as regards the first objection, it should be recalled first of all that, in accordance with settled case-law, the purpose of the obligation, set out in Article 296 TFEU, to state the reasons for an individual decision is to provide the person concerned with sufficient information to determine whether the decision is well founded or whether it is vitiated by a defect which may make it possible for its validity to be contested, and to enable the EU judicature to review its lawfulness (judgments of 18 September 1995 in Tiercé Ladbroke v Commission, T‑471/93, ECR, EU:T:1995:167, paragraph 29, and of 27 September 2012 in J v Parliament, T‑160/10, EU:T:2012:503, paragraph 20).
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