60Furthermore, as regards the loss of interest in bringing proceedings, it must be recalled that, according to settled case-law, an applicant may retain an interest in claiming the annulment of an act in order to prevent its alleged unlawfulness from recurring in the future. That interest in bringing proceedings follows from the first paragraph of Article 266 TFEU, under which the institutions whose act has been declared void are required to take the necessary measures to comply with the judgment. However, that interest in bringing proceedings can only exist if the alleged unlawfulness is liable to recur in the future independently of the circumstances of the case which gave rise to the action brought by the applicant (see, to that effect, Wunenburger v Commission, cited in paragraph 56 above, paragraphs 50 to 53 and the case-law cited, and Reliance Industries v Council and Commission, cited in paragraph 56 above, paragraph 43).
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