56In order to determine whether a judicial decision constitutes a decision finally disposing of the case against a person, it is necessary, inter alia, to be satisfied that that decision was taken after a determination had been made as to the merits of the case (see, by analogy, as regards Article 54 of the Convention implementing the Schengen Agreement of 14 June 1985 between the Governments of the States of the Benelux Economic Union, the Federal Republic of Germany and the French Republic on the gradual abolition of checks at their common borders, signed in Schengen on 19 June 1990 (OJ 2000 L 239, p. 19), judgments of 10 March 2005, Miraglia, C‑469/03, EU:C:2005:156, paragraph 30; of 5 June 2014, M, C‑398/12, EU:C:2014:1057, paragraph 28; and of 29 June 2016, Kossowski, C‑486/14, EU:C:2016:483, paragraph 42).
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