34Both the practical effect and the spirit of those provisions require, moreover, that the request of an insured person for authorisation on the basis of Article 22(1 )(c) of Regulation No 1408/71 has been refused by the competent institution and it is subsequently established, either by the competent institution itself or by a court decision, that that refusal was unfounded, that person is entitled to be reimbursed directly by the competent institution by an amount equivalent to that which it would ordinarily have borne if authorisation had been properly granted in the first place..
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