48As for possible justification for the significant delay, the Court has held that the only defence available to a Member State in opposing an infringement action by the Commission under Article 108(2) TFEU is to plead that it was absolutely impossible for it to implement the decision in question (judgments in Commission v Germany, 94/87, EU:C:1989:46, paragraph 8, and Commission v France, C‑441/06, EU:C:2007:616, paragraph 27 and the case-law cited).
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