43It must be added that the Hellenic Republic has also not pleaded the absolute impossibility of proceeding with the diligent performance of its obligations under Articles 2 and 3 of Decision 2003/372. It is apparent from the settled case-law of the Court that the condition that it be absolutely impossible to implement a decision is not fulfilled where the defendant government merely informs the Commission of the legal, political or practical difficulties involved in implementing the decision, without taking any real step to recover the aid from the undertakings concerned, and without proposing to the Commission any alternative arrangements for implementing the decision which could have enabled those difficulties to be overcome (see, in particular, Case 94/87 Commission v Germany [1989] ECR 175, paragraph 10, and Case C-499/99 Commission v Spain [2002] ECR I-6031, paragraph 25).
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