24However, even though, strictly speaking, a national court directs its reference to the interpretation of certain Community provisions which might come into consideration, the Court is not thereby precluded from providing the national court with all those elements for the interpretation of Community law which may be of assistance in adjudicating on the case pending before it, whether or not that court has specifically referred to them in its questions (see, to that effect, Case C-387/01 Weigel [2004] ECR I-4981, paragraph 44, and Case C-152/03 Ritter-Coulais [2006] ECR I-1711, paragraph 29).
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