24It must be recalled, to that end, that the Court has held that that very concept, within the meaning of Article 3(1) of Directive 72/166 (‘the First Directive’), the content of which essentially corresponds to that of the first and second paragraphs of Article 3 of Directive 2009/103, cannot be left to the discretion of each Member State, but constitutes an autonomous concept of EU law, which must, in accordance with the Court’s settled case-law, be interpreted in the light, in particular, of the context of that provision and the objectives pursued by the rules of which it is part (see, to that effect, judgments of 4 September 2014, Vnuk, C‑162/13, EU:C:2014:2146, paragraphs 41 and 42, and of 28 November 2017, Rodrigues de Andrade, C‑514/16, EU:C:2017:908, paragraph 31).
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