14The Bezirksgericht Bregenz having made a reference to the Court for a preliminary ruling, the Court, by its judgment in Case C-178/99 Salzmann [2001] ECR I-4421, paragraph 21, held that it had no jurisdiction to answer the questions submitted to it, since the Bezirksgericht Bregenz was acting in an administrative capacity in the context of the proceedings pending before it and could not, therefore, be regarded as a court or tribunal within the meaning of Article 177 of the EC Treaty (now Article 234 EC).
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