23As a preliminary point, it must be recalled that, in accordance with the Court’s settled case-law, the question whether a Member State has failed to fulfil its obligations must be determined by reference to the situation prevailing in that Member State at the end of the period laid down in the reasoned opinion, and that the Court cannot take account of any subsequent changes (judgments of 30 January 2002, Commission v Greece, C‑103/00, EU:C:2002:60, paragraph 23, and of 21 March 2019, Commission v Italy, C‑498/17, EU:C:2019:243, paragraph 29).
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