44According to settled case-law, in interpreting a provision of European Union law it is necessary to consider not only its wording but also the context in which it occurs and the objectives pursued by the rules of which it is part (see, inter alia, Case C-301/98 KVS International [2000] ECR I-3583, paragraph 21; Case C-298/07 Bundesverband der Verbraucherzentralen und Verbraucherverbände [2008] ECR I-7841, paragraph 15; and Case C-403/09 PPU Detiček [2009] ECR I-12193, paragraph 33). Account should therefore be taken, for the purposes of answering the first and fifth questions referred for a preliminary ruling, both of the wording of Article 71 of Regulation No 44/2001 and that particular article’s objective and of the context in which Article 71 occurs and the objectives pursued by the regulation.
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