23According to settled case-law established in various contexts, for example agricultural regulations or the rules on time-limits for bringing an action laid down by Article 45 of the Statute of the Court of Justice, force majeure is not limited to absolute impossibility but must be understood in the sense of abnormal and unforeseeable circumstances, extraneous to the operator concerned, the consequences of which, in spite of the exercise of all due care, could not have been avoided (see, to that effect, Case C-195/91 P Bayer v Commission [1994] ECR I-5619, paragraph 31, and Case C-208/01 Parras Medina [2002] ECR I-8955, paragraph 19 and the case-law cited).
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