49Thus, it must be stated in reply to the second limb of the seventh question that it is for the national court, pursuant to the second paragraph of Article 177 of the EEC Treaty, to decide whether the questions of law raised by the case before it are relevant, whether a preliminary ruling is necessary for it to be able to give judgment and at which stage of the proceedings a question must be referred to the Court of Justice for a preliminary ruling.
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