82As regards, in the first place, the contractual or tortious nature of the action in the main proceedings, it is important to note that the concepts of ‘matters relating to a contract’ and ‘matters relating to tort, delict or quasi-delict’, within the meaning, respectively, of Article 7(1) and (2) of Regulation No 1215/2012, must be interpreted autonomously, by reference principally to the regulation’s scheme and objectives, in order to ensure that the regulation is applied uniformly in all the Member States. Those concepts cannot therefore be taken to refer to how the legal relationship in question before the national court is classified by the applicable national law (see, to that effect, judgment of 14 July 2016, Granarolo, C‑196/15, EU:C:2016:559, paragraph 19 and the case-law cited).
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