74It must be added that, contrary to what the General Court held in paragraphs 281 to 283 of the judgment under appeal, such a formal obligation to sign statements of individual reasons cannot be inferred from the obligation to state reasons provided for in Article 296 TFEU either. That provision requires the statement of reasons to disclose in a clear and unequivocal fashion the reasoning followed by the institution which adopted the measure in such a way as to enable the persons concerned to ascertain the reasons for the measure and to enable the court having jurisdiction to exercise its power of review, and that statement of reasons must be appropriate to the measure at issue and the context in which it was adopted (judgment of 31 January 2019, Islamic Republic of Iran Shipping Lines and Others v Council, C‑225/17 P, EU:C:2019:82, paragraphs 68 and 69 and the case-law cited). As is apparent from the case-law referred to in paragraph 55 of the present judgment, those requirements must not be confused with those relating to the authentication of an EU act, checking compliance with the latter requirement being a preliminary to any other review of that act.
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