30It must be recalled, first, that, according to settled case-law, in order to ensure, as far as possible, that the rights and obligations which derive from Regulation No 44/2001 for the Member States and the persons to whom it applies are equal and uniform, ‘civil and commercial matters’ should not be interpreted as a mere reference to the internal law of one or other of the States concerned. That concept must be regarded as being an independent concept to be interpreted by referring, first, to the objectives and scheme of that regulation and, secondly, to the general principles which stem from the corpus of the national legal systems (judgment of 23 October 2014 flyLAL-Lithuanian Airlines, C‑302/13, EU:C:2014:2319, paragraph 24).
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