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Such penalties shall be effective, proportionate and dissuasive.\n2. <a id=\"p-2\"></a>Each Member State shall notify to the Commission the provisions of its law which it adopts pursuant to paragraph 1, by 25 May 2018 and, without delay, any subsequent amendment affecting them.\n\n***\n\n[Chapter VIII — Remedies, liability and penalties](../chapters/viii.md) · [← Article 83](83.md) · [Article 85 →](85.md)\n"}