34In so far as, in the second place, the Commission contends that the appeal is inadmissible on the ground that the appellants seek a mere re-examination of the pleas in law and arguments already relied on before the General Court, it must be borne in mind that, provided that the appellant challenges the interpretation or application of EU law by the General Court, the points of law examined at first instance may be discussed again in the course of an appeal. Indeed, if an appellant could not thus base his appeal on pleas in law and arguments already relied on before the General Court, an appeal would be deprived of part of its purpose (judgments of 19 January 2017, Commission v Total and Elf Aquitaine, C‑351/15 P, EU:C:2017:27, paragraph 31 and the case-law cited, and of 17 May 2017, Portugal v Commission, C‑337/16 P, EU:C:2017:381, paragraph 20).
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