43The applicants complain that the EU institutions failed to take their comments into account. However, that alleged failure to take into account their comments does not constitute a breach of their rights of defence or their right to be heard. Although for those rights to be observed, the EU institutions must enable the applicants to effectively make known their views, those institutions cannot be required to adhere to them. In order for the applicants’ submission of views to be effective it is necessary only that they have been submitted in good time so that the EU institutions may take cognisance of them and assess, with all the requisite attention, their relevance for the content of the measure being adopted (see, to that effect, judgment of 1 October 2009 in Foshan Shunde Yongjian Housewares & Hardware v Council, C‑141/08 P, ECR, EU:C:2009:598, paragraphs 97, 98 and 102, and Sopropé, cited in paragraph 38 above, EU:C:2008:746, paragraphs 49 and 50).
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