23In accordance with settled case-law, Article 267 TFEU does not make available a means of redress to the parties to a case pending before a national court, so that the Court cannot be compelled to evaluate the validity of European Union law on the sole ground that that question has been put before it by one of the parties in its written observations (Brünsteiner and Autohaus Hilgert, paragraph 28 and the case-law cited).