Judgment_paragraph 72 · Z. v A Government department and The Board of management of a community school (C-363/12)

72The primacy of international agreements concluded by the European Union over instruments of secondary law means that those instruments must as far as possible be interpreted in a manner that is consistent with those agreements (Joined Cases C‑320/11, C‑330/11, C‑382/11 and C‑383/11 Digitalnet and Others [2012] ECR, paragraph 39, and HK Danmark, paragraph 29).