78Having regard to that objective and the broadly framed and general wording of Article 14 of Directive 2004/48, which refers to the ‘successful party’ and the ‘unsuccessful party’, without providing detail or setting a limitation on the type of procedure to which the rule laid down therein must be applied, it must be held that that provision is applicable to the legal costs incurred in the context of any procedure falling within the scope of that directive.
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