22As regards Article 7(2) of Directive 2003/88, it is apparent from the case-law of the Court that that provision does not lay down any condition for entitlement to an allowance in lieu other than that relating to the circumstance, first, that the employment relationship has ended and, secondly, that the worker has not taken all the annual leave to which he was entitled on the date that that relationship ended. That right is conferred directly by the directive and does not depend on conditions other than those which are explicitly provided for therein (see, to that effect, judgments of 12 June 2014, Bollacke, C‑118/13, EU:C:2014:1755, paragraphs 23 and 28, and of 20 July 2016, Maschek, C‑341/15, EU:C:2016:576, paragraph 27). That provision thus fulfils the criteria of unconditionality and sufficient precision, and thus meets the conditions required for it to have direct effect.
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