34Consequently, the answer to the second and third questions referred is that Article 12(4) of Directive 2011/7 must be interpreted as meaning that the Member States may exclude from the scope of that directive late payments in the performance of a contract concluded before 16 March 2013, even where those late payments occur after that date.
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