40Given that that regulation does not provide any definition of the concept of the child’s place of ‘habitual residence’ and makes no reference to the law of the Member States in that regard, the Court has repeatedly held that the concept is an autonomous one of EU law, which has to be interpreted in the light of the context of the provisions referring to that concept and the objectives of Regulation No 2201/2003, in particular that which is apparent from recital 12 thereof, according to which the grounds of jurisdiction which it establishes are shaped in the light of the best interests of the child, in particular on the criterion of proximity (judgments of 2 April 2009, A, C‑523/07, EU:C:2009:225, paragraphs 31, 34 and 35; of 22 December 2010, Mercredi, C‑497/10 PPU, EU:C:2010:829, paragraphs 44 to 46; of 9 October 2014, C, C‑376/14 PPU, EU:C:2014:2268, paragraph 50; and of 8 June 2017, OL, C‑111/17 PPU, EU:C:2017:436, paragraph 40).
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