87Having regard to paragraph 84 of the present judgment and to the objectives of EU policy on the environment, a broad interpretation of the concept of ‘environmental law’ is required, in the sense that it covers any EU act which, irrespective of its legal basis, contributes to the achievement of the objectives of that policy, as set out in Article 191(1) TFEU (see, to that effect, judgment of 8 November 2022, Deutsche Umwelthilfe (Approval of motor vehicles), C‑873/19, EU:C:2022:857, paragraph 53). The fact that, according to the very wording of Article 2(1)(f) of Regulation No 1367/2006, the legal basis on which an act is adopted is not a relevant criterion for the purposes of its classification as ‘environmental law’ permits the inference that the procedure for the adoption of that act, which determines, in accordance with Article 289 TFEU, whether or not it is legislative in nature, is not a relevant criterion either for the purposes of that classification.
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