79In paragraph 507 of the judgment under appeal, the General Court observed that, according to the information provided by the Commission, the project to build Hinkley Point C was intended solely to prevent a drastic fall in the contribution of nuclear energy to overall electricity needs and that, in the light of the United Kingdom’s right to determine its own energy mix and to maintain nuclear energy as a source in that mix, which follows from the second subparagraph of Article 194(2) TFEU, and from the second paragraph of Article 1, Article 2(c) and the first paragraph of Article 192 of the Euratom Treaty, the decision to maintain nuclear energy in the supply structure could not be considered to be manifestly disproportionate having regard to the positive effects of the measures at issue.
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