Judgment_paragraph 45 · Abcur AB v Apoteket Farmaci AB and Apoteket AB (C-544/13, C-545/13)

45According to the Court’s settled case-law, the need for a uniform application of EU law and the principle of equality require the terms of a provision of EU law which makes no express reference to the law of the Member States for the purpose of determining its meaning and scope normally to be given an independent and uniform interpretation throughout the European Union; that interpretation must take into account not only its wording but also its context and the objectives pursued by the rules of which it is part (see, to that effect, judgments in Ekro, 327/82, EU:C:1984:11, paragraph 11, and A, C‑523/07, EU:C:2009:225, paragraph 34 and the case-law cited).