43As regards the fact that Article 5(8) provides that the transferee is to be treated as the successor to the transferor, it follows from the wording of that paragraph, as the Commission correctly points out, that the succession does not constitute a condition for the application of the paragraph, but is merely a result of the fact that no supply is considered to have taken place.
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