46In so far as those recitals are set out in legislative acts postdating the facts of the dispute in the main proceedings, it is sufficient to note that, as has been pointed out in paragraph 38 above, the mandatory nature of the provisions contained in Directive 93/13 and the specific consumer protection requirements associated with them require that a broad interpretation of the concept of ‘consumer’, within the meaning of Article 2(b) of that directive, be given preference, in order to ensure the effectiveness of that directive. Accordingly, the teleological interpretation of Directive 93/13 supports the approach set out by the EU legislature in those recitals, according to which a person who has concluded a contract for purposes partly within his or her trade must be regarded as a consumer where the trade purpose is so limited as not to be predominant in the overall context of that contract.
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