55It follows from settled case-law that the scope of the principle of the protection of legitimate expectations cannot be extended to the point of generally preventing new rules from applying to the future effects of situations which arose under the earlier rules (see, among other cases, Case 278/84 Germany v Commission [1987] ECR 1, paragraph 36, and Case C-60/98 Butterfly Music [1999] ECR I-3939, paragraph 25).
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