Judgment_paragraph 38 · SC Avicarvil Farms SRL v Ministerul Agriculturii şi Dezvoltării Rurale and Others (C-443/21)

38In that regard, according to the Court’s case-law, where Member States adopt measures by which they implement EU law, they are required to respect the general principles of that law, which include, inter alia, the principles of legal certainty and protection of legitimate expectations (judgment of 26 May 2016, Județul Neamț and Județul Bacău, C‑260/14 and C‑261/14, EU:C:2016:360, paragraph 54 and the case-law cited).