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1. Without prejudice to paragraph 2 of this Article, the Member States shall lay down the rules on penalties applicable to infringements of this Regulation, the network codes adopted pursuant to Article 59, and the guidelines adopted pursuant to Article 61 and shall take all measures necessary to ensure that they are implemented. The penalties provided for shall be effective, proportionate and dissuasive. Member States shall, without delay, notify the Commission of those rules and of those measures and shall notify it without delay of any subsequent amendment affecting them.

2. The Commission may, by decision, impose on undertakings fines not exceeding 1 % of the total turnover in the preceding business year where, intentionally or negligently, those undertakings supply incorrect, incomplete or misleading information in response to a request made pursuant to Article 65(3) or fail to supply information within the time-limit set in a decision adopted pursuant to the first subparagraph of Article 65(5). In setting the amount of a fine, the Commission shall have regard to the gravity of the failure to comply with the requirements referred to in paragraph 1 of this Article.

3. The penalties provided for pursuant to paragraph 1 and any decisions taken pursuant to paragraph 2 shall not be of a criminal law nature.