63Although Directive 2009/72 does not preclude the government of a Member State, in particular through the participation of representatives of its ministries, from being able to state its position before the national regulatory authority on the way in which it considers that that authority might take the public interest into account in the framework of its regulatory tasks, that participation and, in particular, the views expressed by those representatives during the tariff regulation procedures cannot be binding or in any case be regarded by the regulatory authority as instructions with which it would be required to comply when exercising its duties and its powers.
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