245In that regard, it must be recalled that, in its settled case-law on the EEC Treaty, the Court has previously held that, unlike standard international treaties, the Community Treaties established a new legal order, which is integrated into the legal systems of the Member States on the entry into force of the Treaties and which are binding on their courts. That new legal order, for the benefit of which the Member States limited their sovereign rights in the fields defined by the Treaties and the subjects of which comprise not only the Member States but also their nationals, has its own institutions (see, to that effect, judgments of 5 February 1963, van Gend & Loos, 26/62, EU:C:1963:1, p. 23, and of 15 July 1964, Costa, 6/64, EU:C:1964:66, pp. 593 and 594).
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