61Moreover, the need to ensure the sound operation of the internal market and the need, in the interests of the harmonious administration of justice, to ensure that irreconcilable judgments will not be given in the Member States require a broad definition of that concept of ‘civil and commercial matters’ (see, to that effect, judgment of 10 September 2009, German Graphics Graphische Maschinen, C‑292/08, EU:C:2009:544, paragraphs 22 and 23).
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