72Admittedly, should the national courts which made the references conclude, on the basis of the replies to be given by the Court, that the new Articles 2621 and 2622 of the Italian Civil Code do not, by reason of certain of their provisions, satisfy the Community law requirement that penalties be appropriate, it would follow, according to the Courts well-established case-law, that the national courts which made the references would be required to set aside, under their own authority, those new articles without having to request or await the prior repeal of those articles by way of legislation or any other constitutional procedure (see, inter alia, Case 106/77 Simment'hal [1978] ECR 629, paragraphs 21 and 24; Joined Cases C-13/91 and C-113/91 Debus [1992] ECR I-3617, paragraph 32; and Joined Cases C-10/97 to C-22/97 IN. CO.GE'90 and Others [1998] ECR I-6307, paragraph 20).
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