39The fundamental requirement of legal certainty precludes, in principle, public authorities from being able to make indefinite use of their powers to put an end to an unlawful situation (see, by analogy, judgment of 14 July 1972, Geigy v Commission, 52/69, EU:C:1972:73, paragraph 21).
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