207Nevertheless, it should be noted that, in agricultural matters, judicial review of compliance with the principle of proportionality is special in so far as the Court of Justice and the General Court recognise that the EU legislature has a discretionary power which corresponds to the political responsibilities conferred on it by Articles 40 to 43 TFEU in that field. In the present case, the contested regulation is based on Regulation No 1107/2009 the legal basis of which is, inter alia, Articles 43 and 114 TFEU. Consequently, the legality of such a measure can be affected only if the measure is manifestly inappropriate in terms of the objective which the competent institution is seeking to pursue (judgments of 5 May 1998, National Farmers’ Union and Others, C‑157/96, EU:C:1998:191, paragraph 61, and of 3 September 2009, Cheminova and Others v Commission, T‑326/07, EU:T:2009:299, paragraph 195).
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