35According to Article 2(6) of the agreement on social policy, which is reproduced in Article 137(5) EC, as amended by the Treaty of Nice, the provisions of that article ‘shall not apply to pay, the right of association, the right to strike or the right to impose lock-outs’. However, as the Court has already held in relation to Article 137(5) EC, since that provision derogates from paragraphs 1 to 4 of that article, the matters reserved by paragraph 5 must be interpreted strictly so as not to affect unduly the scope of paragraphs 1 to 4, nor to call into question the aims pursued by Article 136 EC (see Del Cerro Alonso, paragraph 39, and Impact, paragraph 122).
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