Judgment_paragraph 63 · Asociaţia Accept v Consiliul Naţional pentru Combaterea Discriminării (C-81/12)

63It follows that the rules on sanctions put in place in order to transpose Article 17 of Directive 2000/78 into the national law of a Member State must in particular ensure, in parallel with measures taken to implement Article 9 of that directive, real and effective legal protection of the rights deriving from it (see, by analogy, in particular, Case C-180/95 Draehmpaehl [1997] ECR I-2195, paragraphs 24, 39 and 40). The severity of the sanctions must be commensurate to the seriousness of the breaches for which they are imposed, in particular by ensuring a genuinely dissuasive effect (see, to that effect, in particular, Case C-383/92 Commission v United Kingdom [1994] ECR I-2479, paragraph 42, and Draehmpaehl, paragraph 40), while respecting the general principle of proportionality (see, to that effect, Case C-101/01 Lindqvist [2003] ECR I-12971, paragraphs 87 and 88, and Case C-430/05 Ntionik and Pikoulas [2007] ECR I-5835, paragraph 53).