94In the light of the Court’s case-law cited in paragraph 91 of the present judgment, it must be held that, where a number of EU institutions are given separate responsibilities of their own in the context of a procedure initiated against a Member State that is liable to result in a decision adversely affecting it, each of those institutions is required, in respect of its own activities, to comply with the requirement of objective impartiality. Consequently, even where only one of them has breached that requirement, such a breach is liable to render the decision adopted by the other at the end of the procedure at issue unlawful.
Source: EUR-Lex, © European Union, 1998-2026. Reuse authorised under Decision 2011/833/EU.