23In addition, it must be noted that, pursuant to the fourth paragraph of Article 288 TFEU, decisions are binding in their entirety upon those to whom they are addressed. Consequently, the Member State to which a decision requiring recovery of unlawful aid incompatible with the internal market is addressed is obliged under that article to take all measures necessary to ensure implementation of that decision (see, to that effect, Case C-209/00 Commission v Germany [2002] ECR I-11695, paragraph 31, and Case C-404/00 Commission v Spain [2003] ECR I-6695, paragraph 21). Those decisions are binding on all the organs of the State to which they are addressed, including the courts of that State (see, to that effect, Case 249/85 Albako Margarinefabrik [1987] ECR 2345, paragraph 17).
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