60Announcing, by publishing the cooperation notice, that the rules set out therein will apply to the cases to which that notice relates, the Commission, as correctly observed in paragraphs 42 and 43 of the judgment under appeal, imposed a limit on the exercise of its discretion and cannot, as a general rule, depart from those rules, at the risk of being found to be in breach of general principles of law, such as equal treatment or the protection of legitimate expectations (see, by analogy, judgments of 28 June 2005, Dansk Rørindustri and Others v Commission, C‑189/02 P, C‑202/02 P, C‑205/02 P to C‑208/02 P and C‑213/02 P, EU:C:2005:408, paragraph 211; of 11 September 2008, Germany and Others v Kronofrance, C‑75/05 P and C‑80/05 P, EU:C:2008:482, paragraph 60; and of 14 March 2024, D & A Pharma v Commission and EMA, C‑291/22 P, EU:C:2024:228, paragraph 143).
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