31According to settled case-law, the concepts used in the Brussels Convention — which include, in particular, that of ‘consumer’ for the purposes of Articles 13 to 15 of that Convention — must be interpreted independently, by reference principally to the scheme and purpose of the Convention, in order to ensure that it is uniformly applied in all the Contracting States (see, in particular, Case 150/77 Bertrand [1978] ECR 1431, paragraphs 14, 15 and 16; Case C-89/91 Shearson Lehman Hutton [1993] ECR I-139, paragraph 13; Case C-269/95 Benincasa [1997] ECR I-3767, paragraph 12; Case C-99/96 Mietz [1999] ECR I-2277, paragraph 26; and Case C-96/00 Gabriel [2002] ECR I-6367, paragraph 37).
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