282In the third place, it cannot be considered that the harmful measures do not contain any guarantees allowing the applicants to make their views known. In that regard, it should be noted that the applicable provisions must offer the person concerned a reasonable opportunity of putting his case to the competent authorities. In order to ensure compliance with that requirement, which constitutes a requirement inherent in Article 1 of Protocol No 1 to the ECHR, a comprehensive view must be taken of the applicable procedures (see, to that effect, judgment of 3 September 2008, Kadi and Al Barakaat International Foundation v Council and Commission, C‑402/05 P and C‑415/05 P, EU:C:2008:461, paragraph 368 and the case-law cited, and ECtHR, 20 July 2004, Bäck v. Finland, EC:ECHR:2004:0720JUD003759897, paragraph 56). Therefore, that requirement cannot be interpreted as meaning that the interested person must, in all circumstances, be able to make his views known to the competent authorities prior to the adoption of measures infringing his right to property (see, to that effect, ECtHR, 19 September 2006, Maupas and Others v. France, EC:ECHR:2006:0919JUD001384402, paragraphs 20 and 21). That is, in particular, the case where, as in the present case, the measures at issue do not constitute a penalty and are implemented in a context of particular urgency. In that latter regard, it should be noted that, as the ECB pointed out during the hearing, it concerned prevention of an imminent risk of collapse of the banks concerned in order to protect the stability of the Cypriot financial system and, therefore, to prevent contagion to other Member States of the euro area. The establishment of a prior consultation procedure, in the context of which the thousands of depositors and shareholders of the banks concerned could have usefully made their views known to the CBC prior to the adoption of the harmful decrees, would inevitably have delayed the application of measures seeking to prevent such a collapse. The achievement of the objective consisting in protecting the stability of the Cypriot financial system and, therefore, preventing contagion to other Member States of the euro area would have been exposed to serious risks (see, to that effect and by analogy, ECtHR, 21 July 2016, Mamatas and Others v. Greece, EC:ECHR:2016:0721JUD006306614, paragraph 139).
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