54Regarding the Kingdom of Sweden’s conduct in respect of its obligations under Directive 2006/24, the justifications put forward by that Member State pursuant to which the delay in complying with that judgment was attributable to extraordinary internal difficulties connected with specific aspects of the legislative procedure, to the extensive political debate on the transposition of Directive 2006/24, and to the issues raised in terms of difficult choices involving weighing the protection of privacy against the need to combat crime effectively cannot be upheld. As the Court has repeatedly emphasised, a Member State cannot plead provisions, practices or situations prevailing in its domestic legal order to justify failure to observe obligations arising under European Union law (see, inter alia, Case C-407/09 Commission v Greece [2011] ECR I-2467, paragraph 36). The same is true of a decision, such as the one made by the Swedish Parliament, to which paragraph 8 of this judgment makes reference, to postpone for a year the adoption of the draft bill intended to transpose that directive.
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