33Under Article 3(2) of Directive 2002/22, Member States are to determine the most efficient and appropriate approach for ensuring the implementation of universal service, whilst respecting the principles of objectivity, transparency, non-discrimination and proportionality and they are to seek to minimise market distortions, whilst safeguarding the public interest (Commission v France, paragraph 29).
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