12It also follows from settled case-law that a Member State may not plead provisions, practices or circumstances existing in its internal legal order in order to justify a failure to comply with the obligations and time-limits laid down in a directive (see, inter alia, Case C-286/01 Commission v France [2002] ECR I-5463, paragraph 13).
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