42It thus points out that the Court has held that breach of a secondary obligation cannot in itself entail loss of entitlement to aid where the principal obligations are fully observed (Case 240/78 Atalanta Amsterdam [1979] ECR 2137). Besides, according to settled case-law, the penalty must be appropriate in order to achieve the objective pursued and may not go beyond what is appropriate and necessary to attain that objective (see, in particular, Case C-118/89 Lingenfelser [1990] ECR I-2637).
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