49By adopting Regulation No 2988/95, and in particular the first subparagraph of Article 3(1) thereof, the EU legislature intended to establish a general limitation rule which was applicable in the area and by which it intended, first, to define a minimum period applied in all the Member States and, secondly, to waive the possibility of recovering sums wrongly received from the European Union budget after the expiry of a four-year period after the irregularity affecting the payments at issue was committed (judgment in Josef Vosding Schlacht-, Kühl- und Zerlegebetrieb and Others, EU:C:2009:38, paragraph 27).
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