79The arguments put forward by the Republic of Slovenia for the purpose of explaining the delay in transposing the MiFID II Directive, namely the interruption of the legislative process previously commenced due to the organisation of early parliamentary elections, is not such as to affect the seriousness of the infringement at issue since, according to settled case-law, a Member State cannot rely on practices or situations prevailing in its internal legal order to justify its failure to comply with the obligations and time limits laid down by EU directives, nor therefore the late or incomplete implementation of directives (judgment of 13 July 2017, Commission v Spain, C‑388/16, not published, EU:C:2017:548, paragraph 41).
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