55As the Commission noted, Member States are in particular required to take effective measures to recover sums wrongly paid to the beneficiary of a subsidy funded in part from the budget of the European Union. On the other hand, Article 325 TFEU does not impose on Member States any constraint, other than that relating to the effectiveness of the measures, as regards the procedure which must enable such an outcome to be achieved, so that the Member States have some leeway in that respect, subject to observing the principle of equivalence.
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