Judgment_paragraph 37 · Dual Prod SRL v Direcţia Generală Regională a Finanţelor Publice Cluj-Napoca - Comisia regională pentru autorizarea operatorilor de produse supuse accizelor armonizate (C-412/21)

37As regards, thirdly, the criterion relating to the severity of the penalty incurred, it is important to note that, although each of the two suspension measures at issue in the main proceedings is likely to have negative economic consequences for Dual Prod, they are nevertheless inherent to the preventive or precautionary nature that such measures appear to have and do not, in principle, reach the degree of severity required for them to be classified as criminal in nature since, in particular, they do not prevent that company from pursuing, during the periods of suspension, economic activities that do not require authorisation to operate as a tax warehouse for products subject to excise duty.