58The Commission’s proposals regarding the amount of the penalty payment cannot bind the Court and are merely a useful point of reference. The Court must remain free to set the penalty payment to be imposed in an amount and in a form that it considers appropriate for the purposes of inducing the Member State concerned to bring to an end its failure to comply with its obligations arising under EU law (judgment of 12 November 2020, Commission v Belgium (Income from foreign immovable property), C‑842/19, EU:C:2020:915, paragraph 64 and the case-law cited).