29As the Commission observed in that regard at the hearing, the exclusion from the scope of Directive 93/13 of many contracts concluded by ‘client-consumers’ with persons practising liberal professions, characterised by independence and ethical requirements to which those persons are subject, would deprive all those ‘client-consumers’ of the protection granted by that directive.
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