Judgment_paragraph 55 · London Steam-Ship Owners’ Mutual Insurance Association Limited v Kingdom of Spain (C-700/20)

55In that regard, it should be borne in mind that, in interpreting a provision of EU law, it is necessary to consider not only its wording but also the context in which it occurs and the objectives pursued by the rules of which it is part. Account should therefore be taken, for the purposes of answering the first and second questions referred, of not only the wording and the objective of Article 34(3) of Regulation No 44/2001 but also the context of that provision and all of the objectives pursued by the regulation (see, to that effect, judgment of 4 May 2010, TNT Express Nederland, C‑533/08, EU:C:2010:243, paragraph 44 and the case-law cited).