42In that regard, it must be observed, first, that neither Article 2(f) nor Article 10(3)(a) of Directive 2003/86 contains any reference to the national law or to Member States, which is unlike other provisions in the same directive, such as Article 5(1) and Article 11(2), which suggests that, if the EU legislature had wished to leave to the discretion of each Member State the responsibility for determining the moment until which the person concerned must be a minor in order to benefit from the right to family reunification with his or her parents, it would have included such a reference in that context also.
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