100Therefore, even if the referring court should find that the compulsory payment of the compensation referred to in Article 49(1)(c) of the Workers’ Statute constitutes a measure designed to prevent the abuse arising from the use of successive fixed-term employment contracts or relationships or an equivalent legal measure, within the meaning of Clause 5 of the framework agreement, the fact that that compensation is granted solely on the expiry of fixed-term employment contracts other than temporary replacement contracts would be likely to compromise the objective and the practical effect of the framework agreement only if there is no other effective measure in Spanish law for avoiding and penalising abuse with regard to workers employed under temporary replacement contracts, which it is for the referring court to ascertain.
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