40As regards, in the first place, the determination of the time of exit from the Schengen area, it should be noted that, according to the Court’s settled case-law, it follows from the requirements both of the uniform application of EU law and the principle of equality that the wording of a provision of EU law that does not contain any express reference to the law of the Member States in order to determine its meaning and scope must, throughout the European Union, be interpreted independently and uniformly throughout the European Union, irrespective of characterisation in the Member States, taking into account the wording of the provision at issue and also its context and the purpose of the rules of which it forms part (see, to that effect, inter alia, judgments of 9 November 2017, Maio Marques da Rosa, C‑306/16, EU:C:2017:844, paragraph 38, and of 3 October 2019, X (Long-term residents — Stable, regular and sufficient resources), C‑302/18, EU:C:2019:830, paragraph 26).
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