77Nevertheless, the principle of interpreting national law in conformity with EU law has certain limits. Thus, the obligation on a national court to refer to the content of a directive when interpreting and applying the relevant rules of national law is limited by general principles of law and it cannot serve as the basis for an interpretation of national law contra legem (see, to that effect, judgments of 15 January 2014, Association de médiation sociale, C‑176/12, EU:C:2014:2, paragraph 39; of 13 December 2018, Hein, C‑385/17, EU:C:2018:1018, paragraph 51; and of 14 October 2020, KG (Successive assignments in the context of temporary agency work), C‑681/18, EU:C:2020:823, paragraph 66 and the case-law cited).
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