115In particular, the Court has consistently held that the failure to comply with the procedural rules relating to the adoption of an act adversely affecting a person constitutes an infringement of an essential procedural requirement and if the EU judiciature finds that it was not validly adopted, it must draw the necessary conclusions from the infringement of an essential procedural requirement and, consequently, annul the act vitiated by that defect (judgments of 4 September 2014, Spain v Commission, C‑197/13 P, EU:C:2014:2157, paragraph 103, and of 24 June 2015, Spain v Commission, C‑263/13 P, EU:C:2015:415, paragraph 56).
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