56It follows from this that it is necessary to consider, in the third place, whether circumstances such as those at issue in the main proceedings are ‘specific’ for the purposes of the case-law cited in the previous paragraph, such that, as is the case with an extended absence of the worker due to sick leave, they justify an exception to the principle established in Article 7 of Directive 2003/88 and Article 31(2) of the Charter, according to which the right to paid annual leave acquired cannot be lost at the end of the leave year and/or of a carry-over period fixed by national law, when the worker has been unable to take his leave.
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