52Finally, while the Commission did not annex to its application the full text of the relevant national legislation, the fact remains that, both in the application and in the reasoned opinion annexed to it, the Commission reproduced and explained the content of the provisions of the legislation on which its action for failure to fulfil obligations was based. Furthermore, the Portuguese Republic has not contested the existence of those provisions but merely challenged the Commission’s conceptual interpretation of them, and offered such clarification as it considered necessary to enable the Court properly to assess the content of those provisions. Moreover, it must be pointed out that, since the legislation was published in Diário da República and is, therefore, publicly available, the Court is in a position to check the veracity of the Commission’s assertions with regard to the content of the provisions concerned.
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