19As regards the arguments put forward by the Kingdom of Spain seeking to justify non-compliance with the transposition deadline in question and based, primarily, on the interim nature of the Spanish Government during the relevant period, it is sufficient to recall that, according to the Court’s settled case-law, a Member State cannot plead provisions, practices or situations prevailing in its domestic legal order to justify failure to observe obligations arising under EU law such as failure to transpose a directive within the period prescribed (judgment of 4 October 2018, Commission v Spain, C‑599/17, not published, EU:C:2018:813, paragraph 23).
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