32In that regard, the Court has stated on several occasions, as is apparent from the 13th recital of Directive 93/13, that the exclusion from the scope of that directive in Article 1(2) thereof extends to provisions of national law that apply between the parties to the contract independently of their choice and to provisions that apply by default, that is to say, in the absence of other arrangements established by the parties in that regard. That exclusion is justified by the fact that it is legitimate to presume that the national legislature has struck a balance between all of the rights and obligations of the parties to certain contracts, a balance which the EU legislature has expressly intended to preserve (the judgment in Banco Santander and Escobedo Cortés, paragraph 43 and the case-law cited).
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