84It must be borne in mind that, according to settled case-law, in an action for annulment under Article 263 TFEU, the lawfulness of an EU measure must be assessed on the basis of the facts and the law as they stood at the time when the measure was adopted (judgment of 7 February 1979 in France v Commission, 15/76 and 16/76, ECR, EU:C:1979:29, paragraph 7). The circumstances referred to by the applicant are subsequent to the ECB’s decision of 22 May 2013, however, and therefore have no bearing on its lawfulness.
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