50In addition, since the Court may consider of its own motion whether the conditions laid down in Article 258 TFEU for an action for failure to fulfil obligations to be brought are satisfied (see judgments of 15 January 2002, Commission v Italy, C‑439/99, EU:C:2002:14, paragraph 8, and of 22 September 2016, Commission v Czech Republic, C‑525/14, EU:C:2016:714, paragraph 14), it must be ascertained whether, by its first complaint, the Commission is entitled to declare that the Republic of Bulgaria failed to fulfil its obligations as from 2007.
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