72However, by laying down such guidelines, in order to establish the criteria on the basis of which it proposes to assess the compatibility, with the internal market, of aid measures envisaged by the Member States and announcing, by publishing them, that it will, from now on, apply them to the cases covered by those guidelines, the Commission imposes a limit on the exercise of the discretion granted to it in that respect by Article 107(3)(c) TFEU and cannot, as a general rule, depart from those guidelines, at the risk of being found to be in breach of general principles of law, such as equal treatment or the protection of legitimate expectations (see, to that effect, judgment of 31 January 2023, Commission v Braesch and Others, C‑284/21 P, EU:C:2023:58, paragraph 90 and the case-law cited).