27Finally, the Italian Government cannot plead failure to respect the principle of reciprocity or rely on a possible infringement of the Treaty by another Member State to justify its own default (see the judgments in Case 232/78 Commission ν France [1979] ECR 2729, paragraph 9, and Case 325/82 Commission ν Germany [1984] ECR 777, paragraph 11).
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