46It should be noted that the fact that the national legislation, in this case, according to the national court, Article 14(1) of the TzBfG, may authorise, for an objective reason, a collective agreement to provide for the automatic termination of employment contracts at a specified age does not dispense with the requirement that the collective agreement at issue must be in accordance with EU law and, more particularly, the Directive (see, to that effect, Case C-45/09 Rosenbladt [2010] ECR I-9391, paragraph 53).
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