29It is settled case-law that, in the interests of legal certainty and ease of verification, the decisive criterion for the classification of goods for customs purposes is, in general, to be found in their objective characteristics and properties as defined in the wording of the relevant heading of the CN and of the section or chapter notes (see, in particular, judgments of 12 July 2012, TNT Freight Management (Amsterdam), C‑291/11, EU:C:2012:459, paragraph 30; of 19 December 2019, Amoena, C‑677/18, EU:C:2019:1142, paragraph 40, and of 26 March 2020, Pfizer Consumer Healthcare, C‑182/19, EU:C:2020:243, paragraph 37).
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