48In those circumstances, if the argument put forward by the Federal Republic of Germany were to be upheld, then any Member State which, by its conduct, were to impede the achievement of the objective inherent in a decision adopted under Article 218(9) TFEU, could evade infringement proceedings, on the grounds that that infringement has already exhausted its effects, as a result of which the Member States might take advantage of their own misconduct.
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