39The right to ‘reasonable’ compensation provided for in Article 6(3) of Directive 2011/7 ‘for any recovery costs exceeding that fixed sum and incurred due to the debtor’s late payment’ covers recovery costs, whatever they may be, which exceed the minimum sum of EUR 40 to which the creditor is automatically entitled under Article 6(1) of that directive, where interest for late payment becomes payable in a commercial transaction, in accordance with Article 3 or Article 4 of that directive. Such compensation cannot therefore cover either the part of those costs which is already covered by the fixed minimum sum of EUR 40 or costs which appear to be excessive in the light of the facts of the case in point as a whole (see, to that effect, judgment of 13 September 2018, Česká pojišťovna, C‑287/17, EU:C:2018:707, paragraphs 22 and 30).
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