38However, according to the Court’s settled case-law, fundamental rights, such as respect for the rights of the defence, which includes the right to be heard, do not constitute unfettered prerogatives and may be restricted, provided that the restrictions in fact correspond to objectives of general interest pursued by the measure in question and that they do not entail, with regard to the objectives pursued, a disproportionate and intolerable interference which infringes upon the very substance of the rights guaranteed (see, to that effect, judgments of 10 September 2013, G. and R., C‑383/13 PPU, EU:C:2013:533, paragraph 33; of 11 December 2014, Boudjlida, C‑249/13, EU:C:2014:2431, paragraph 43, and of 7 July 2016, Lebek, C‑70/15, EU:C:2016:524, paragraph 37).
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