30It follows that, in principle, a Community trade mark court must issue an order prohibiting further infringement or threatened infringement and, therefore, that the condition relating to ‘special reasons for not doing so’ — which the wording of Article 98(1) clearly shows is an exception to that obligation (see, inter alia, in Spanish,‘[n]o habiendo’; in German,‘sofern … nicht … entgegenstehen’; in English, ‘unless there are’; in French, ‘sauf s'il y a’; in Italian, ‘a meno que esistano’; and, in Dutch,‘tenzij er … zijn’) — must be interpreted strictly.
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