47With regard, firstly, to the compatibility of the institution of strict liability with the principle of proportionality, the Court has already ruled that a system of strict liability penalising breaches of a regulation, in particular in the area of social legislation relating to road transport, is not in itself incompatible with Community law (see, to that effect, Case C-326/88 Hansen [1990] ECR I-2911, paragraphs 14 to 19, and Case C-7/90 Vandevenne and Others [1991] ECR I-4371, paragraphs 16 and 17; see, by analogy, with regard to other fields, Case C-177/95 Ebony Maritime and Loten Navigation [1997] ECR I-1111, paragraph 36).
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