Judgment_paragraph 43 · Romania v European Commission (T-145/15)

43In particular, the purpose of the obligation to state the reasons on which an act adversely affecting an individual is based, which is a corollary of the principle of respect for the rights of the defence, is, firstly, to provide the person concerned with sufficient information to make it possible to ascertain whether the act is well founded or whether it is vitiated by a defect which may permit its legality to be contested before the Courts of the European Union and, secondly, to enable the latter to review the legality of that act (see judgment of 19 June 2014, FLS Plast v Commission, C‑243/12 P, EU:C:2014:2006, paragraph 49). Thus, the duty to state reasons is not limited to respect of the rights of the defence, but contributes to the achievement of a more general objective, namely to ensure that the EU Courts are able to review the legality of the measure challenged before them (see, to that effect, Opinion of Advocate General Mengozzi in Bensada Benallal, C‑161/15, EU:C:2016:3, paragraph 99).