38However, the obligation to state reasons referred to in Article 296 TFEU and reaffirmed in Article 41(2)(c) of the Charter of Fundamental Rights of the European Union is an essential principle of EU law which is intended, first, to provide the person concerned with sufficient information to allow him or her to ascertain whether or not the decision adversely affecting him or her is well founded and whether it would be expedient to bring legal proceedings to contest its legality, and, second, to enable the EU judicature to exercise its power of review (see, to that effect, judgment of 24 November 2022, Thunus and Others v EIB, C‑91/21 P, EU:C:2022:928, paragraph 81).
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