37It is settled case-law that those exemptions constitute independent concepts of Community law whose purpose is to avoid divergences in the application of the VAT system from one Member State to another (see, in particular, Card-Protection Plan, paragraph 15, Skandia, paragraph 23, and Commission v Germany, cited above, paragraph 44).
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