55It is thus apparent from the wording of Article 1(3) of Directive 2006/123, read in conjunction with recital 8 thereof, that situations in which the provision of a service is exempt from competition because national legislation has conferred a monopoly on an operator for the provision of certain services are excluded from the scope of that directive (see, to that effect, judgment of 14 November 2018, Memoria and Dall’Antonia, C‑342/17, EU:C:2018:906, paragraph 41), and where the application of the provisions of that directive would have the effect of calling into question the existence of that monopoly.
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