26On termination of the employment relationship and when therefore it is no longer possible to take paid annual leave, Article 7(2) of Directive 2003/88 provides that the worker is entitled to an allowance in lieu in order to prevent this impossibility leading to a situation in which the worker loses all enjoyment of that right, even in pecuniary form (see judgments of 20 January 2009 in Schultz-Hoff and Others, C‑350/06 and C‑520/06, EU:C:2009:18, paragraph 56; 3 May 2012 in Neidel, C‑337/10, EU:C:2012:263, paragraph 29, and 12 June 2014 in Bollacke, C‑118/13, EU:C:2014:1755, paragraph 17).
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