37By its fourth question, the referring court asks, in essence, whether the concept of ‘damage’, within the meaning of the PIF Convention and Directive 2017/1371, must include costs actually incurred and duly proven, and the use of the financial assistance, if it is established that those costs were necessary to conceal fraudulent conduct, delay the detection of the fraud and obtain all the State aid in question.
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