65That applies a fortiori when, as stated by the Federal Republic of Germany, a Member State has to be able to justify a ‘requirement to be evaluated’ by an overriding reason in the public interest as soon as that requirement is introduced and therefore, logically, when it does not necessarily have in its possession any empirical evidence of the results of that requirement, as compared with the results of other measures.
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