42However, as the Court has already held, although the claims as stated in the application cannot as a rule be extended beyond the infringements alleged in the operative part of the reasoned opinion and in the letter of formal notice, the fact nevertheless remains that the Commission has standing to seek a declaration that a Member State has failed to fulfil obligations which were created in the original version of a European Union measure, subsequently amended or repealed, and which were maintained in force under the provisions of a new European Union measure. Conversely, the subject-matter of the dispute cannot be extended to obligations arising under new provisions which do not correspond to those arising under the original version of the measure concerned, for otherwise it would constitute a breach of the essential procedural requirements of infringement proceedings (see, in that regard, Case C-365/97 Commission v Italy [1999] ECR I-7773, paragraph 36; Case C-363/00 Commission v Italy [2003] ECR I-5767, paragraph 22, and Case C-416/07 Commission v Greece, cited above, paragraph 28).
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