38None the less, the Court has held that a national court, when hearing a case between individuals, is required, when applying the provisions of domestic law adopted for the purpose of transposing obligations laid down by a directive, to consider the whole body of rules of national law and to interpret them, so far as possible, in the light of the wording and purpose of the directive in order to achieve an outcome consistent with the objective pursued by the directive (see Case C-212/04 Adeneler and Others [2006] ECR I-6057, paragraph 111; Pfeiffer and Others, paragraph 119; and Dominguez, paragraph 27).
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