32The Court has held, in so far as concerns the concept of ‘public policy’ set out in that provision, that Article 34 of Regulation No 44/2001 must be interpreted strictly inasmuch as it constitutes an obstacle to the attainment of one of the fundamental objectives of that regulation. The public-policy clause contained in Article 34(1) of that regulation may be relied on only in exceptional cases (judgments of 28 March 2000, Krombach, C‑7/98, EU:C:2000:164, paragraph 21, and of 25 May 2016, Meroni, C‑559/14, EU:C:2016:349, paragraph 38 and the case-law cited).
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