87As for the complaint made by the Italian Republic against the Commission, criticising the fact that the Commission did not bring the present proceedings until years after the waste crisis had arisen and at the very time that Italy had adopted the measures enabling the crisis to be brought to an end, it should be borne in mind that the Court has consistently held that the rules laid down in Article 258 TFEU are to be applied without the Commission being required to comply with fixed time-limits (see, inter alia, Case C-96/89 Commission v Netherlands [1991] ECR I-2461, paragraph 15, and Case C-523/04 Commission v Netherlands [2007] ECR I-3267, paragraph 38). The Commission is thus entitled to decide, in its discretion, on what date it may be appropriate to bring an action and it is not for the Court to review the exercise of that discretion (Case C-422/92 Commission v Germany [1995] ECR I-1097, paragraph 18).
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