Judgment_paragraph 79 · European Commission v Romania (C-549/18)

79As regards the beginning of the period which must be taken into account in order to set the amount of the lump sum to be imposed pursuant to Article 260(3) TFEU, it must be stated that, unlike the Court’s holding in paragraph 88 of its judgment of 8 July 2019, Commission v Belgium (Article 260(3) TFEU — High-speed networks) (C‑543/17, EU:C:2019:573), in relation to the determination of a daily penalty payment to be imposed, the relevant date for evaluating the duration of the infringement at issue for the purposes of imposing a lump sum pursuant to Article 260(3) TFEU is not the date of expiry of the period prescribed in the reasoned opinion, but the date of expiry of the transposition period laid down in the directive in question.