23It is true that the Court has already held that the interpretation of provisions of an act of the Union in situations outside that act’s scope is justified where those provisions have been made applicable to such situations by national law directly and unconditionally in order to ensure that internal situations and situations governed by EU law are treated in the same way (see, to that effect, judgment in Nolan, EU:C:2012:638, paragraph 47 and the case-law cited).
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