70The General Court was therefore correct in holding, in paragraph 124 of the judgment under appeal, that a rejection of the appellants’ argument that the Commission is obliged to take action in response to the ECI at issue does not deprive the ECI mechanism of all effectiveness. As the Advocate General observed, in point 78 of his Opinion, the particular added value of the ECI mechanism resides not in certainty of outcome, but in the possibilities and opportunities that it creates for Union citizens to initiate debate on policy within the EU institutions without having to wait for the commencement of a legislative procedure.
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