152However, the Court has previously held, in reply to arguments that are entirely comparable to those put forward by the Italian Republic in the present case, that structural difficulties arising from the socio-economic and budgetary implications of large-scale investments that need to be carried out, were not, in themselves, exceptional and were not such as to rule out the possibility that shorter deadlines could have been set (see, to that effect, judgments of 24 October 2019, Commission v France (Exceeding limit values for nitrogen dioxide), C‑636/18, EU:C:2019:900, paragraph 85, and, by analogy, of 22 February 2018, Commission v Poland, C‑336/16, EU:C:2018:94, paragraph 101). The same applies to local traditions.
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