40Furthermore, even if such an objective were regarded as permissible, no indication has been submitted to suggest that that objective would not have been achieved if the tax advantage provided for by the national legislation at issue in the main proceedings had also been applied to the dividends attached to shares listed on foreign stock exchanges and that, therefore, it would have been essential to exclude those dividends from the benefit of that tax advantage.
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