13The Court has already ruled on the scope of the second subparagraph of Article 21(3) of Regulation No 4253/88, in the context of sums paid under the Guidance Section of the European Agricultural Guidance and Guarantee Fund (EAGGF). It held that the prohibition of deductions set out in that provision could not be interpreted in a purely formal manner as covering only deductions which are actually made on the occasion of payments and thus that the prohibition on any deduction must of necessity extend to all charges which are directly and inseparably linked to the amounts disbursed (Case C-84/04 Commission v Portugal [2006] ECR I-9843, paragraph 35).
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