33As the Court has repeatedly held, the concepts used in the Brussels Convention — and in particular those featured in Article 5(1) and (3) and Article 13 — must be interpreted independently, by reference principally to the system and objectives 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 Gabriel, paragraph 37).
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