40In that regard, it should be emphasised that that requirement does not prevent ‘reference prices’ for the supply of natural gas, such as those at issue in the main proceedings, from being applied to all customers whose consumption of natural gas is above a certain threshold rather than being limited to the circle of those, expressly referred to in Article 3(3) of Directive 2003/55, who must necessarily be protected on account of their vulnerability.
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