Judgment_paragraph 64 · Republic of Hungary v Commission of the European Communities (T-310/06)

64Furthermore, as the Court held in Crispoltoni I, cited in paragraph 49 above, paragraph 17, it is settled case-law (see, inter alia, Case 98/78 Racke [1979] ECR 69, paragraph 20, and Case 99/78 Decker [1979] ECR 101, paragraph 8), ‘that, although in general the principle of legal certainty precludes a Community measure from taking effect from a point in time before its publication, it may exceptionally be otherwise where the purpose to be achieved so demands and where the legitimate expectations of those concerned are duly respected’ and ‘that case-law also applies where the retroactivity is not expressly laid down by the measure itself but is the result of its content’.

Republic of Hungary v Commission of the European Communities (T-310/06)

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