165 According to settled case-law, that principle requires that acts of the EU institutions be appropriate for attaining the legitimate objectives pursued by the legislation at issue and do not exceed the limits of what is necessary in order to achieve those objectives; when there is a choice between several appropriate measures, recourse must be had to the least onerous, and the disadvantages caused must not be disproportionate to the aims pursued (see, to that effect, judgments in British American Tobacco (Investments) and Imperial Tobacco, C‐491/01, EU:C:2002:741, paragraph 122; ERG and Others, C‐379/08 and C‐380/08, EU:C:2010:127, paragraph 86; and Gauweiler and Others, C‐62/14, EU:C:2015:400, paragraphs 67 and 91).
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