16The opportunity for the Member State concerned to submit its observations, even if it chooses not to avail itself thereof, constitutes an essential guarantee intended by the FEU Treaty, adherence to which is an essential formal requirement of the procedure for finding that a Member State has failed to fulfil its obligations (see, inter alia, Case 211/81 Commission v Denmark [1982] ECR 4547, paragraph 9).
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