32Although it follows from the recitals in the preamble to and the terms of the UCITS Directive that its objective is to coordinate national legislation governing collective investment undertakings, the fact remains, as the Advocate General observed in point 22 of her Opinion, that, when the Sixth Directive was adopted, Community terminology in the field of special investment funds was not yet harmonised, since the UCITS Directive, Article 1(3) of which gives a Community definition of collective investment undertakings, was not adopted until 1985 (see Abbey National, paragraph 55).
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