32It is for the Member States to ensure effective collection of the Union’s own resources (see, to that effect, judgment of 7 April 2016, Degano Trasporti, C‑546/14, EU:C:2016:206, paragraph 21). On that basis, they are obliged to collect sums corresponding to the own resources which, because of fraud, have been withheld from the EU budget.
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