Judgment_paragraph 22 · Smaranda Bara and Others v Casa Naţională de Asigurări de Sănătate and Others (C-201/14)

22The origin of that prohibition is to be found in Article 104 A of the EC Treaty (which became Article 102 EC), which was inserted in the EC Treaty by the Treaty of Maastricht. It was one of the provisions of the TFEU relating to the economic policy that intended to encourage the Member States to follow a sound budgetary policy, not allowing monetary financing of public deficits or privileged access by public authorities to the financial markets to lead to excessively high levels of debt or excessive Member State deficits (see, to that effect, judgment in Gauweiler and Others, C‑62/14, EU:C:2015:400, paragraph 100).