50In so far as that government maintains that the prohibition on marketing covered by the decree at issue in the main proceedings merely reproduced a legal framework of which the Commission had already been notified on 5 April 2011 as ‘draft legislation on the prohibition on the marketing of non-biodegradable plastic shopping bags’, the Court notes, as did the Advocate General in points 49 and 50 of his Opinion, that the notification of the project concerned cannot be analysed as a mere repetition of the 2011 notification. The decree at issue in the main proceedings contains stricter technical specifications than those in the document notified on 5 April 2011, so that the Commission had to be notified of that decree under Article 8(1) of Directive 98/34.
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