22However, the protection conferred by those provisions is reserved, under Article 7(1) of Directive 96/9, for databases which meet a specific criterion, that is to say, in respect of which the maker shows that there has been qualitatively and/or quantitatively a substantial investment in the obtaining, verification or presentation of the database contents. As mentioned in paragraph 16 above, the questions are predicated on the assumption that the collection of car ads at issue in the main proceedings satisfies that condition.
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