46In that connection, it should be recalled that where the EU authorities have a broad discretion, in particular in so far as concerns the assessment of highly complex scientific and technical facts in order to determine the nature and scope of the measures which they adopt in that context, review by the Courts of the European Union is limited to verifying whether there has been a manifest error of assessment or a misuse of powers, or whether those authorities have manifestly exceeded the limits of their discretion. In such a context, the Courts of the European Union cannot substitute their assessment of scientific and technical facts for that of the institutions on which alone the FEU Treaty has placed that task (judgments of 21 July 2011, Nickel Institute, C‑14/10, EU:C:2011:503, paragraph 60, and of 15 October 2020, Deza v Commission, C‑813/18 P, not published, EU:C:2020:832, paragraph 41).
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