Admittedly, and as the Court held, in substance, in paragraphs 17 to 21 of the Titanium dioxide case, cited above, recourse to a dual legal basis is not possible where the procedures laid down for each legal basis are incompatible with each other or where the use of two legal bases is liable to undermine the rights of the Parliament (see also, to that effect, Joined Cases C-164/97 and C‑165/97 Parliament v Council [1999] ECR I-1139, paragraph 14, and Case C‑338/01 Commission v Council, cited above, paragraph 57).

Secondly, recourse to Article 133 EC jointly with Article 175(1) EC is likewise not liable to undermine the Parliament’s rights because, although the first-mentioned article, read in conjunction with the first subparagraph of Article 300(3) EC, does not provide for consultation of that institution prior to the conclusion of an agreement in the area of commercial policy, the second article, on the other hand, does lead to such a res ...[+++]ult.

However, recourse to a dual legal basis is not possible where the procedures laid down for each legal basis are incompatible with each other or where the use of two legal bases is liable to undermine the rights of the Parliament.

Second, recourse to Article 133 EC jointly with Article 175(1) EC is likewise not liable to undermine the Parliament’s rights because, although the first-mentioned article, read in conjunction with the first subparagraph of Article 300(3) EC, does not provide for consultation of that institution prior to the conclusion of an agreement in the area of commercial policy, the second article, on the other hand, does lead to such a resul ...[+++]t.

(41) Whereas any person must be able to exercise the right of access to data relating to him which are being processed, in order to verify in particular the accuracy of the data and the lawfulness of the processing; whereas, for the same reasons, every data subject must also have the right to know the logic involved in the automatic processing of data concerning him, at least in the case of the automated decisions referred to in Article 15 (1); whereas this right must not adversely affect trade secrets or intellectual property and in particular the copyright protecting the software; whereas these considerations must not, however, resu ...[+++]lt in the data subject being refused all information;

Whereas administrative measures are necessary at Community level for implementing in relation to every trade mark the trade mark law created by this Regulation; whereas it is therefore essential, while retaining the Community's existing institutional structure and balance of powers, to establish an Office for Harmonization in the Internal Market (trade marks and designs) which is independent in relation to technical matters and has legal, administrative and financial autonomy; whereas to this end it is necessary and appropriate that ...[+++] it should be a body of the Community having legal personality and exercising the implementing powers which are conferred on it by this Regulation, and that it should operate within the framework of Community law without detracting from the competencies exercised by the Community institutions;