85First, that incentive is only one of the two objectives of the payment of default interest envisaged by the Court in that judgment. The allocation of default interest from the date of provisional payment of the fine at issue pursues the other objective envisaged by the Court, namely restitution at a standard rate for the undertaking which paid that fine for the loss of enjoyment of its funds during the period from the date of provisional payment of that fine to the date of its repayment.
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