25In that regard, the settled case-law of the Court states that, in the interests of legal certainty and ease of verification, the decisive criterion for the classification of goods for customs purposes is in general to be sought in their objective characteristics and properties as defined in the wording of the relevant heading of the CN and in the section or chapter notes (judgments of 27 April 2006, Kawasaki Motors Europe, C‑15/05, EU:C:2006:259, paragraph 38; 29 October 2009, Dinter and Europol Frost-Food, C‑522/07 and C‑65/08, EU:C:2009:663, paragraph 29, and of 22 December 2010, Premis Medical, C‑273/09, EU:C:2010:809, paragraph 42).
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