116As regards the principle of proportionality, the duration of the limitation and implementation periods must not go clearly beyond what is necessary to achieve the objective of protecting the European Union’s financial interests (see, to that effect, judgment of 2 March 2017, Glencore Céréales France, C‑584/15, EU:C:2017:160, paragraph 74). As to the principle of legal certainty, this requires, inter alia, that those periods be fixed in advance, and that any application ‘by analogy’ of a limitation period be sufficiently foreseeable for a person (see, to that effect, judgment of 5 March 2019, Eesti Pagar, C‑349/17, EU:C:2019:172, paragraph 112).
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