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I'm not going to waste further time on your cause. Its readily apparent you've decided your interpretation is the only interpretation you'll accept despite the presence of hard facts to the contrary.
The two links you published refer to two journalist articles published prior to (amongst other things), the EU Judgement I referred to above dated 10 April 2014 .
Seeing as case law (amongst other things) trumps what some journalist writes on their website, my point still stands.
As mad_jock said :
In the UK it is as mixture says. Other country's you might be legal.
The only thing I would add to that is that the goal of the EU directives and rulings is to harmonise things EU-Wide, thus your friends in Germany and Sweden will no doubt soon be making amendments to their interpretation (if they have not done so already).