39Contrary to Teleos and Others' argument that the suppliers and purchasers intention to effect an intra-Community transaction is sufficient for its classification as such, it is clear from the Courts case-law that requiring the tax authorities to carry out inquiries to determine the intention of the taxable person would be contrary to the objectives of the common system of VAT of ensuring legal certainty and facilitating the measures necessary for the application of VAT by having regard, save in exceptional cases, to the objective character of the transaction concerned (see Case C-4/94 BLP Group [1995] ECR I-983, paragraph 24; Optigen and Others, paragraph 45; and Kittel and Recolta Recycling, paragraph 42).
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