46As regards, in that context, the determination of the intentional and violent nature of a crime, as the Advocate General has stated in points 69 and 83 of his Opinion, although the Member States have, in principle, the competence to define the scope of that concept in their domestic law, that competence does not, however, permit them to limit the scope of the compensation scheme for victims to only certain violent intentional crimes, lest it render redundant Article 12(2) of Directive 2004/80.
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