29As regards the Hellenic Republic’s argument concerning the difficulties it had been facing in connection with the closure and cleaning up of all the illegal landfills at issue, it should be recalled that, according to settled case-law, a Member State cannot plead provisions, practices or situations prevailing in its domestic legal order to justify failure to observe obligations arising under EU law (see judgment in Commission v Italy, C‑496/09, EU:C:2011:740, paragraph 87 and case-law cited; see also, to that effect, judgment in Commission v Spain, C‑278/01, EU:C:2003:635, paragraph 31). In the light of that case-law, the Hellenic Republic’s argument cannot succeed.
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