93However, overall programmes are provisional in nature, with the result that, by approving them, the Commission is not, in principle, taking a definitive view on the compatibility of the measures contained therein with all the applicable rules of EU law and, therefore, on the eligibility of those measures for EU financing. Accordingly, it cannot be inferred from the mere fact that the Commission approves an overall programme either that the measures contained in that programme necessarily comply with all the relevant rules of EU law or that the eligibility of those measures for EU financing can no longer be called into question by the Commission, in particular as part of the conformity clearance procedure provided for in Article 31 of Regulation No 1290/2005 (see, to that effect and by analogy, Opinion of Advocate General Kokott in Czech Republic v Commission, C‑4/17 P, EU:C:2018:237, points 48, 49, 52 and 59).
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