16In that respect, the Court has held that, if the period allowed for the implementation of a directive proves to be too short, the only means of action compatible with Community law available to the Member State concerned consists in taking the appropriate initiatives within the Community in order to obtain the necessary extension of the period by the competent-Community institution (Commission v Belgium, paragraph 11).
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