44According to settled case-law, whenever the provisions of a directive appear, so far as their subject-matter is concerned, to be unconditional and sufficiently precise, they may be relied on before the national courts by individuals against the State where the latter has failed to implement the directive in domestic law by the end of the period prescribed or where it has failed to implement the directive correctly (see, in particular, Case 8/81 Becker [1982] ECR 53, paragraph 25; Joined Cases C-246/94 to C-249/94 Cooperativa Agricola Zootecnica S. Antonio and Others [1996] ECR I-4373, paragraph 17; and Case C-226/07 Flughafen Köln/Bonn [2008] ECR I-5999, paragraph 23 and the case-law cited).
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