903In order to classify the requirement to reconsult the Parliament as an essential formal requirement, the Court held that that requirement followed from the fact that effective participation of the Parliament in the legislative process constituted an essential factor in the institutional balance intended by the Treaty and that that function reflected the fundamental democratic principle that the people should take part in the exercise of power through the intermediary of a representative assembly (see, to that effect, judgment of 10 June 1997, Parliament v Council, C‑392/95, EU:C:1997:289, paragraph 14 and the case-law cited). Those considerations do not apply in the same way to the EESC and the CoR.
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