431As regards, in the fifth place, the other instruments of secondary legislation relied on by the Republic of Lithuania and the Republic of Poland, it must be recalled that, as regards the various regulations and directives referred to in paragraphs 418 and 419 above, on which the Republic of Poland relies, the substantive legality of an EU act cannot be examined in the light of another EU act of the same status in the hierarchy of legal rules, unless the former has been adopted pursuant to the latter or unless it is expressly provided, in one of those two acts, that one take precedence over the other (see, to that effect, judgment of 8 December 2020, Hungary v Parliament and Council, C‑620/18, EU:C:2020:1001, paragraph 119), which is not the case here.
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