49In the present case, in the first place, as regards the relevance of the judgment of 19 February 2002, Wouters and Others (C‑309/99, EU:C:2002:98), it must be noted that the reasoning set out in that judgment cannot be applied to the present case. As the Advocate General observed in points 56 to 58 of his Opinion, in that judgment the Court ruled on the accounting profession in the context of a comparison between the profession of lawyer and that of accountant, distinguishing between those two professions, and circumscribed its examination to the specific situation of lawyers and accountants in the Netherlands.
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