38With regard to the question of whether the exemption for ‘goods to be carried in the personal luggage of travellers, within the meaning of Article 147(1), is capable of applying to goods transported under conditions such as those at issue in the main proceedings, it should be recalled that the need for a uniform application of EU law and the principle of equality require that the terms of a provision of EU law which makes no express reference to the law of the Member States for the purpose of determining its meaning and scope must normally be given an independent and uniform interpretation throughout the European Union (judgments of 18 October 2011, Brüstle, C‑34/10, EU:C:2011:669, paragraph 25 and the case-law cited, and of 23 April 2020, Associazione Avvocatura per i diritti LGBTI, C‑507/18, EU:C:2020:289, paragraph 31 and the case-law cited).
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