66As the case-law shows, the maintenance of the effects of a Union measure which has been annulled or declared invalid, the purpose of which is to prevent a legal vacuum from arising before a new measure replaces the measure thus annulled or declared invalid (see, in particular, Case C-157/02 Rieser Internationale Transporte [2004] ECR I-1477, paragraph 60), may be justified where overriding considerations of legal certainty involving all the interests, public as well as private, are at stake (see, in particular, Régie Networks, paragraph 122 and case-law cited) and during the period of time necessary in order allow such illegality to be remedied (see to that effect, in particular, Kadi and Al Barakaat International Foundation v Council and Commission, paragraph 375, and Régie Networks, paragraph 126).
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