45As the General Court rightly noted in paragraph 61 of the judgment under appeal, the lawfulness of an act of the European Union must be assessed on the basis of the facts and the law as they stood at the time when the measure was adopted (judgment of 11 May 2017, Sweden v Commission, C‑562/14 P, EU:C:2017:356, paragraph 63 and the case-law cited) such that acts subsequent to the adoption of a decision cannot affect the validity of that decision (judgments of 8 November 1983, IAZ International Belgium and Others v Commission, 96/82 to 102/82, 104/82, 105/82, 108/82 and 110/82, EU:C:1983:310, paragraph 16, and of 17 October 1989, Dow Benelux v Commission, 85/87, EU:C:1989:379, paragraph 49; and the order of President of the Court of 27 September 2004, Commission v Akzo and Akcros, C‑7/04 P(R), EU:C:2004:566, paragraph 46).
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