34According to the Court’s settled case-law on the interpretation of Article 50 of the Charter and transposed into Article 49(3) thereof, three criteria are relevant for assessing the criminal nature of a penalty. The first is the legal classification of the offence under national law, the second is the intrinsic nature of the offence, and the third is the degree of severity of the penalty which the person concerned is liable to incur (see, to that effect, judgments of 6 October 2021, ECOTEX BULGARIA, C‑544/19, EU:C:2021:803, paragraph 91, and of 22 March 2022, bpost, C‑117/20, EU:C:2022:202, paragraph 25 and the case-law cited).
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