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The paper deals with the optimal control problem: \[ \text{Minimize }: L(y,u)= G(y)+H(u) \tag{1} \] over all \((y,u)\) subject to \[ Ay = Bu + f, \tag{2} \] where \(A,B\) are closed densely defined operators with closed range and \(A\) is a linear operator, \(G\) and \(H\) are lower-semicontinuous functionals from a real Hilbert space into \((-\infty,+\infty]\) satisfying a coercivity hypothesis. The main result of the authors is that under certain conditions \((y^*,u^*)\) is an optimal pair of (1), (2) if and only if there exists \(p^* \in D(A^*) \cap D(B)\) such that \(A^* p^* \in -\partial G(y^*)\), \(B p^* \in \partial H(u^*)\), where \(\partial\) stands for the subdifferential operator and \(\partial G, \partial H\) are locally bounded at \(y^*, u^*\) respectively [see also \textit{S. C. Gao} and \textit{N. H. Pavel}, Proc. Am. Math. Soc. 126, No. 10, 2979-2986 (1998)].