64In the third place, with regard to Sections 6 and 7 of the Commission guidelines, it should be noted, first, that, even if those guidelines are not intended to produce binding effects, the national courts are bound to take them into consideration in order to decide disputes submitted to them, in particular where they cast light on the interpretation of national measures adopted in order to implement them or where they are designed to supplement binding European Union provisions (see, by analogy, the judgments in Grimaldi, C‑322/88, EU:C:1989:646, paragraph 18, and Altair Chimica, C‑207/01, EU:C:2003:451, paragraph 41).
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