31It follows, in particular, that the Court is not competent to interpret EU Directives relating to VAT where the recovery of taxes at issue in the main proceedings pre-dates the accession of the Member State concerned to the Union (judgment of 27 June 2018, Varna Holideis, C‑364/17, EU:C:2018:500, paragraph 18).
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