74In fact, that latter decision remained in force by reason of the presumption that acts of the institutions of the European Union are lawful, which, according to the Court’s settled case-law, means that those acts produce legal effects until such time as they are withdrawn, annulled in an action for annulment or declared invalid following a reference for a preliminary ruling or a plea of illegality (see, inter alia, Case C-199/06 CELF and Ministre de la Culture et de la Communication [2008] ECR I-469, paragraph 60 and case-law cited).
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