40However, as is clear from Article 325 TFEU, Member States are to take the same measures to counter fraud affecting the financial interests of the EU as they take to counter fraud affecting their own financial interests. Consequently and in view of the objectives pursued by Regulation No 2988/95, when the EU legislature has not adopted sectoral rules intended to protect the Union’s financial interests against the conduct of certain operators, Member States are entitled to maintain or adopt provisions in that domain and in respect of those operators in so far as such provisions prove to be necessary for combating fraud and provided that they observe the general principles of EU law, in particular that of proportionality, as well as the general rules laid down in Regulation No 2988/95 and any existing EU sectoral rules concerning other operators.
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