48In that regard, it is for the national court to assess to what extent the statistics adduced before it concerning the situation of the workforce are valid and whether those can be taken into account, that is to say, whether, for example, they illustrate purely fortuitous or short-term phenomena, and whether, in general, they appear to be significant (see, to that effect, judgment of 9 February 1999, Seymour-Smith and Perez, C‑167/97, EU:C:1999:60, paragraph 62 and the case-law cited).
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