178However, the Court has also held, in paragraph 58 of its judgment of 28 February 2012, Inter-Environnement Wallonie and Terre wallonne (C‑41/11, EU:C:2012:103), that a national court may, given the existence of an overriding consideration relating to the protection of the environment, as applied in the case giving rise to that judgment, and provided that the conditions specified in that judgment are met, exceptionally be authorised to make use of a provision of its national law empowering it to maintain certain effects of an annulled national measure. It is thus apparent from that judgment that the Court intended to afford, on a case‑by‑case basis and by way of exception, a national court the power to adjust the effects of annulment of a national provision held to be incompatible with EU law, with due regard to the conditions laid down by the Court’s case-law (see, to that effect, judgment of 28 July 2016, Association France Nature Environnement, C‑379/15, EU:C:2016:603, paragraph 34).
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