For det første kunne Retten for så vidt angår konstateringen af, at et sådant ansvar principielt eksisterer, ifølge Kommissionen ikke med så vag en begrundelse foretage den så betydelige nyskabelse, der er indeholdt i præmis 159 i FIAMM-dommen og i præmis 152 i Fedon-dommen.
First, so far as concerns the affirmation as to the very existence of the principle of such liability, the Court of First Instance could not, according to the Commission, make so significant an innovation on the basis of merely the vague reasoning contained in paragraph 159 of the FIAMM judgment and paragraph 152 of the Fedon judgment.