41It follows that the Court must in principle confine its examination to the matters which the court or tribunal making the reference has decided to submit to it for consideration. The Court must therefore, as regards application of the relevant national rules, proceed on the basis of the situation which that court or tribunal considers to be established; it cannot be bound by suppositions raised by one of the parties to the main proceedings which the national court or tribunal has merely reproduced but on which it has not expressed an opinion.
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