Judgment_paragraph 617 · Republic of Lithuania and Others v European Parliament and Council of the European Union (C-541/20)

617Furthermore, the Court has previously held that an economic operator may not place legitimate reliance on there being no alteration of an existing situation by the EU legislature, but can call into question only the arrangements for the implementation of such an alteration (see, to that effect, judgment of 20 December 2017, Global Starnet, C‑322/16, EU:C:2017:985, paragraph 47 and the case-law cited).