32It follows from those considerations, first, that the right to claim statutory interest for late payment and the right to the fixed minimum sum provided for in Article 6(1) of Directive 2011/7 arise from a ‘late payment’, within the meaning of Article 2(4) of that directive, and are therefore linked to individual ‘commercial transactions’. Second, that statutory interest, like that fixed sum, is to become payable automatically upon expiry of the payment period laid down in paragraphs 3, 4 and 6 of Article 4 of Directive 2011/7, provided that the conditions set out in paragraph 1 of that article are satisfied. Recital 17 of that directive states that ‘a debtor’s payment should be regarded as late, for the purposes of entitlement to interest for late payment, where the creditor does not have the sum owed at his disposal on the due date provided that he has fulfilled his legal and contractual obligations’.
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