64Consequently, the scope of the right to be heard, as a principle and fundamental right of the EU legal order, is afforded when the administration plans to adopt a measure adversely affecting a person, that is, a measure which may have a negative effect on the interests of the individual or Member State concerned, since its application does not depend on the existence of an express rule to that effect laid down by subordinate legislation. It must be pointed out that the deductions imposed by the contested regulation are such measures having a negative effect on the Kingdom of Spain in that they involve significant reductions in the annual fishing quotas allocated to it during the period between 2011 and 2015 at least. Moreover, in the present case, the Commission determined the respective amounts of those deductions and the period during which they were to be applied in the exercise of its discretion under Article 105(2) of the control regulation.
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