29It should be stated at the outset that it is for the national court alone to determine the subject-matter of the questions which it wishes to refer to the Court. The Court cannot, at the request of one party to the main proceedings, examine questions which have not been submitted to it by the national court. If, in view of developments in the proceedings, the national court were to consider it necessary to obtain further interpretations of Community law, it would be for that court to make a fresh reference to the Court (see in particular Case 311/84 CBEM [1985] ECR 3261, paragraph 10, and Case C-189/95 Franzén [1997] ECR I-5909, paragraph 79).
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