25According to that case-law the characterisation of a duty as a charge for public utility services requires there to be a direct and proportional link between the actual cost of that service and the duty paid by the recipient, that is to say a correlation between the price paid by the latter in consideration for a specific service and the real cost incurred by the Administration through performance of the service.
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