35The Court has also held that a provision which concerns only the relations between the Member States and the Commission does not, in principle, have to be transposed. However, given that the Member States are obliged to ensure that Community law is fully complied with, it is open to the Commission to demonstrate that compliance with a provision of a directive governing those relations requires the adoption of specific transposing measures in national law (see, to that effect, Case C-72/02 Commission v Portugal [2003] ECR I-6597, paragraphs 19 and 20, and Case C-296/01 Commission v France [2003] ECR I-13909, paragraph 92).
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