93The Court has consistently held that there is an inseparable link between the obligation to establish the Communities’ own resources, the obligation to credit them to the Commission’s account within the prescribed time-limit and the obligation to pay default interest, payable regardless of the reason for the delay in making the entry in the Commission’s account (see, in particular, Case 68/88 Commission v Greece [1989] ECR 2965, paragraph 17; Case C-363/00 Commission v Italy [2003] ECR I-5767, paragraphs 43 and 44; and the judgment of 22 January 2009 in Case C-150/07 Commission v Portugal, paragraph 62).
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