29However, it is apparent from those provisions that they do no more than guarantee that the circumstances envisaged in, inter alia, Article 4(1) and Article 6 of Directive 2011/7 grant the creditor the right to demand interest for late payment and compensation for recovery costs. As is apparent from recital 28 of that directive, the impossibility of excluding such a right by contractual means is intended to prevent abuse of the freedom of contract to the disadvantage of the creditor, who, at the time when the contract is entered into, is not in a position to renounce such a right.
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