128It follows, as the General Court recalled in paragraph 170 of the judgment under appeal, that, notwithstanding the obligation of prior notification for each measure intended to grant new aid or to alter aid, which is incumbent on the Member States under the Treaties and is one of the fundamental features of the system of monitoring in the field of State aid, if an aid measure adopted by a Member State fulfils the relevant conditions provided for in Regulation No 800/2008, that Member State may rely on its being exempted as laid down in Article 3 of that regulation from the notification requirement. Conversely, it is apparent from recital 7 of that regulation that State aid not covered by that regulation should remain subject to the notification requirement laid down by Article 108(3) TFEU (see, inter alia, judgment of 5 March 2019, Eesti Pagar, C‑349/17, EU:C:2019:172, paragraph 59 and the case-law cited).
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