57Regarding, in the first place, the question whether such a person must be granted the right to an effective remedy guaranteed by Article 47 of the Charter when confronted with such a decision, it should be noted at the outset that it follows from the settled case-law of the Court that the protection of persons, both natural and legal, against arbitrary or disproportionate intervention by the public authorities in the sphere of those persons’ private activities constitutes a general principle of EU law (judgments of 21 September 1989, Hoechst v Commission, 46/87 and 227/88, EU:C:1989:337, paragraph 19, and of 13 September 2018, UBS Europe and Others, C‑358/16, EU:C:2018:715, paragraph 56).
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