72Consequently, notwithstanding the tension between the first and second sentences of the first paragraph of Article 52 of Directive 2013/32, it follows from those preparatory documents that the EU legislature intended to allow the Member States to choose whether to apply their provisions implementing that directive with immediate effect to applications for international protection lodged before 20 July 2015.
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