51So far as concerns the administrative or punitive measures permitted under national legislation, they must not go beyond what is necessary to attain the objectives legitimately pursued by that legislation (judgment of 24 February 2022, Agenzia delle dogane e dei monopoli and Ministero dell’Economia e delle Finanze, C‑452/20, EU:C:2022:111, paragraph 37 and the case-law cited). In particular, the severity of the penalty must be commensurate with the seriousness of the breach which it is intended to suppress (judgment of 12 September 2019, Maksimovic and Others, C‑64/18, C‑140/18, C‑146/18 and C‑148/18, EU:C:2019:723, paragraph 39 and the case-law cited).
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