94It is also necessary to cite as an aggravating circumstance the fact that the judgment of 24 June 2004, Commission v Greece (C‑119/02, not published, EU:C:2004:385), has not yet been fully complied with, according to the statements of the Hellenic Republic, which is equivalent to a delay of almost 20 years, in so far as the obligation to ensure that the secondary treatment of the urban waste water in the Thriasio Pedio area complied with EU law should have been fulfilled on 31 December 1998 at the latest (see, to that effect, judgment of 24 June 2004, Commission v Greece, C‑119/02, not published, EU:C:2004:385, paragraph 51). Accordingly, the Court cannot but confirm the particularly lengthy character of an infringement which, in the light of the objective mentioned above, is also a matter of indisputable gravity (see, by analogy, judgment of 22 June 2016, Commission v Portugal, C‑557/14, EU:C:2016:471, paragraph 74).
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