39That requirement cannot, however, go so far as to make it necessary that the national provisions mentioned in the reasoned opinion and in the application should always be completely identical. Where a change in the legislation occurred between those two procedural stages, it is sufficient that the system established by the legislation contested in the pre-litigation procedure has, on the whole, been maintained by the new measures which were adopted by the Member State after the issue of the reasoned opinion and have been challenged in the application (see Case 45/64 Commission v Italy [1965] ECR 857, Case C-42/89 Commission v Belgium [1990] ECR I-2821, Case C-105/91 Commission v Greece [1992] ECR I-5871, paragraph 13, and Case C-11/95 Commission v Belgium [1996] ECR I-4115, paragraph 74).
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