26In the present case, the plea in law based on the adoption of the 2008 SNE decision, which occurred in the course of the proceedings before the Court of Justice, is in any event ineffective, since the legality of a Community measure must be assessed on the basis of the facts and the law as they stood at the time when the measure was adopted (see Joined Cases 15/76 and 16/76 France v Commission [1979] ECR 321, paragraph 7; Case C-449/98 P IECC v Commission [2001] ECR I-3875, paragraph 87; and Case C-443/07 P Centeno Mediavilla and Others v Commission [2008] ECR I-10945, paragraphs 110 and 111).
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