62It follows from the settled case-law of the Court that, whenever the provisions of a directive appear, so far as their subject matter is concerned, to be unconditional and sufficiently precise, they may be relied upon before the national courts by individuals against a Member State where the latter has failed to implement the directive in domestic law by the end of the period prescribed or where it has failed to implement the directive correctly (see, to that effect, judgments of 19 January 1982, Becker, 8/81, EU:C:1982:7, paragraph 25; of 17 September 1996, Cooperativa Agricola Zootecnica S. Antonio and Others, C‑246/94 to C‑249/94, EU:C:1996:329, paragraphs 18 and 19; of 5 October 2004, Pfeiffer and Others, C‑397/01 to C‑403/01, EU:C:2004:584, paragraph 103; and of 8 March 2022, Bezirkshauptmannschaft Hartberg-Fürstenfeld (Direct effect), C‑205/20, EU:C:2022:168, paragraph 17).
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