Judgment_paragraph 116 · European Commission v Hellenic Republic (C-51/20)

116In those circumstances, without prejudice to the possibility for the Commission to propose financial penalties which are based on multiple criteria, with a view, in particular, to allowing a reasonable gap between the various Member States to be maintained, it is necessary to rely on the GDP of the Hellenic Republic as the predominant factor for the purposes of assessing its ability to pay, without taking account of the institutional weight of the Hellenic Republic expressed by the number of votes that that Member State has within the European Parliament for the purposes of setting sufficiently dissuasive and proportionate sanctions.

European Commission v Hellenic Republic (C-51/20)

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