111Furthermore, while it is permissible for an association such as FIFA to provide for sanctions to be imposed in the event of a breach of the rules which it adopts, provided that those rules and the sanctions intended to ensure compliance therewith are justified by the pursuit of a legitimate objective in the public interest, such sanctions can be accepted only on condition that they are determined within a framework of criteria that are transparent, objective, non-discriminatory and proportionate (see, to that effect, judgment of 21 December 2023, European Superleague Company, C‑333/21, EU:C:2023:1011, paragraph 257), the last requirement entailing, inter alia, that the particular circumstances of the case are taken into account when the amount and the duration of the sanctions are fixed, as follows from the case-law cited in paragraph 108 of the present judgment. Such sanctions must, moreover, be capable of being the subject of effective review.
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