25Such a finding cannot be invalidated by the public nature of lawyers’ activities, since Article 2(c) of Directive 93/13 refers to any ‘purposes relating to his trade, business or profession, whether publicly owned or privately owned’ and as recital 14 of that directive states, it ‘also applies to trades, business or professions of a public nature’.
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