79Consequently, a national court cannot validly claim that it is impossible for it to interpret a provision of national law in a manner that is consistent with EU law merely because that provision has consistently been interpreted in a manner that is incompatible with EU law (judgments of 8 November 2016, Ognyanov, C‑554/14, EU:C:2016:835, paragraph 69, and of 6 November 2018, Max-Planck-Gesellschaft zur Förderung der Wissenschaften, C‑684/16, EU:C:2018:874, paragraph 60) or is applied in such a manner by the relevant national authorities.
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