46The national authorities being required to ensure that the duty, once chargeable, is in fact collected (see Van de Water, cited above, paragraph 41), the purpose of Article 20 of the Directive is in particular to determine the Member State entitled to collect the excise duty on the products where, in the course of a movement, an offence or infringement has been committed.
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