46Consequently, according to settled case-law, reliance by a national authority on the concept of public policy presupposes, in any event, the existence, in addition to the perturbation of the social order which any infringement of the law involves, of a genuine and sufficiently serious threat to the requirements of public policy affecting one of the fundamental interests of society (Rutili, paragraph 28; Bouchereau, paragraph 35; and Orfanopoulos and Oliveri, paragraph 66).
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