Par ailleurs, en 2010, lorsque la Commission a imposé cette exigence, il était déjà tout à fait inapproprié de choisir la notation financière comme seul critère applicable à la fourniture d’une garantie bancaire, de sorte que ce critère, objectivement discutable, exigerait une motivation plus solide, claire et explicite.
Moreover, in 2010, when the Commission imposed that requirement, to choose as criterion for the provision of a bank guarantee simply the credit rating was at that time wholly inappropriate, so that that criterion, since it was open to question from an objective standpoint, called for a stronger, clearer and more specific statement of reasons.