38Secondly, Article 11(1)(a) allows the Member States to refuse to apply or withdraw the benefit of all or any part of the provisions of the Directive, including the tax advantages to which the main proceedings relate, where it appears that the merger, division, transfer of assets or exchange of shares has, in particular, as its principal objective or as one of its principal objectives tax evasion or tax avoidance.
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