Judgment_paragraph 71 · Bayerische Motoren Werke AG and Freistaat Sachsen v European Commission (C-654/17 P)

71Secondly, according to the settled case-law of the Court, it follows from the second subparagraph of Article 256(1) TFEU, from the first paragraph of Article 58 of the Statute of the Court of Justice of the European Union and from Article 168(1)(d) of the Rules of Procedure of the Court of Justice that an appeal must state precisely the contested elements of the judgment which the appellant seeks to have set aside and also the legal arguments specifically advanced in support of that request. In that regard, Article 169(2) of the Rules of Procedure requires that the pleas in law and legal arguments relied on should identify precisely those points in the grounds of the decision of the General Court which are contested (judgment of 20 September 2016, Mallis and Others v Commission and ECB, C‑105/15 P to C‑109/15 P, EU:C:2016:702, paragraphs 33 and 34 and the case-law cited).