48It follows from the case-law of the Court that, in the case of a mixed contract, the different aspects of which are, in accordance with the contract notice, inseparably linked and thus form an indivisible whole, the transaction at issue must be examined as a whole for the purposes of its legal classification and must be assessed on the basis of the rules which govern the aspect which constitutes the main object or predominant feature of the contract (see, to that effect, Case C-3/88 Commission v Italy [1989] ECR 4035, paragraph 19; Case C-331/92 Gestión Hotelera Internacional [1994] ECR I-1329, paragraphs 23 to 26; Case C-220/05 Auroux and Others [2007] ECR I-385, paragraphs 36 and 37; Case C-412/04 Commission v Italy [2008] ECR I-619, paragraph 47; and Case C-536/07 Commission v Germany [2009] ECR I-10355, paragraphs 28, 29, 57 and 61).
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