13Furthermore, the Court has repeatedly held that a Member State may not rely on provisions, practices or circumstances in its own legal order to justify failure to implement a directive within the prescribed period (see, inter alia, Case C-352/01 Commission v Spain [2002] ECR I-10263, paragraph 8).
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