24It appears from this that the right to the recovery of sums unduly paid helps to offset the consequences of the duty’s incompatibility with EU law by neutralising the economic burden which that duty has unduly imposed on the operator who, in the final analysis, has actually borne it (Case C-94/10 Danfoss and Sauer-Danfoss [2011] ECR I-9963, paragraph 23).
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