35As the Court has already held on the basis of a number of recitals in the preamble to Directive 96/9, including recitals 39, 42 and 48, that objective is to stimulate the establishment of data storage and processing systems which contribute to the development of an information market against a background of exponential growth in the amount of information generated and processed annually in all sectors of activity (see, inter alia, The British Horseracing Board and Others, paragraphs 30 and 31; Case C-46/02 Fixtures Marketing [2004] ECR I-10365, paragraph 33; and Case C‑604/10 Football Dataco and Others [2012] ECR, paragraph 34).
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