Judgment_paragraph 26 · Sense Visuele Communicatie en Handel vof v Minister van Landbouw, Natuur en Voedselkwaliteit (C-36/21)

26It should be borne in mind that, according to the settled case-law of the Court, the principle of the protection of legitimate expectations forms part of the EU legal order and is binding on every national authority responsible for applying EU law (see, to that effect, judgments of 26 April 1988, Krücken, 316/86, EU:C:1988:201, paragraph 22, and of 7 August 2018, Administratīvā rajona tiesa, C‑120/17, EU:C:2018:638, paragraph 48).