54In the event that the referring court were to find that the penalty of forfeiture of entitlement to contractual interest is not genuinely dissuasive, within the meaning of Article 23 of Directive 2008/48, it must be noted in this respect that a national court, when hearing a case exclusively between individuals, is required, when applying the provisions of domestic law, 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 applicable directive in order to achieve an outcome consistent with the objective pursued by that directive (see, inter alia, Case C‑351/12 OSA [2014] ECR, paragraph 44).
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