52Next, as regards the purpose of Article 260(3) TFEU, it must be borne in mind that that provision broadly corresponds to Draft Article 228(3) of the Treaty establishing a Constitution for Europe, as set out on page 15 of the cover note of the Praesidium to the Convention of 12 May 2003 (CONV 734/03), a draft of which the wording itself mirrors the wording proposed in the Final report of the discussion circle on the Court of Justice of 25 March 2003 (CONV 636/03, pages 10 and 11). It is clear from that final report that the objective pursued by the introduction of the system set out in Article 260(3) TFEU is not only to induce Member States to put an end as soon as possible to a breach of obligations which, in the absence of such a measure, would tend to persist, but also to simplify and speed up the procedure for imposing pecuniary sanctions for failures to comply with the obligation to notify a national measure transposing a directive adopted through a legislative procedure, it being specified that, prior to the introduction of such a system, it might be years before a pecuniary sanction was imposed on Member States which had failed to comply timely with an earlier judgment of the Court and failed to respect their obligations to transpose a directive.
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