76The Court of Justice has also held that it is the mere failure to authenticate the act which constitutes the infringement of an essential procedural requirement and that it is not necessary also to establish that the act is vitiated by some other defect or that the lack of authentication resulted in harm to the person relying on it (judgment of 6 April 2000, Commission v ICI, C‑286/95 P, EU:C:2000:188, paragraph 42).
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