Judgment_paragraph 31 · Institut professionnel des agents immobiliers (IPI) v Geoffrey Englebert and Others (C-473/12)

31It should be noted that the Court has previously held that Directive 95/46 amounts to harmonisation which is generally complete (see Case C-101/01 Lindqvist [2003] ECR I-12971, paragraphs 95 and 96, and Huber, paragraphs 50 and 51). However, the Court has also found that the provisions of Directive 95/46 are necessarily relatively general given that it has to be applied to a large number of very different situations, and that the directive includes rules with a degree of flexibility and, in many instances, leaves to the Member States the task of deciding the details or choosing between options (Lindqvist, paragraph 83).