31Fourth, as regards the provisions of Directive 2004/39 mentioned in the first and second questions which, according to Mr Nilaş, Mr Dascăl and the Romanian Government, are irrelevant in this case, it should be recalled that the fact that a national court has, formally speaking, worded a question by referring to certain provisions of European Union law does not preclude the Court from providing to the national court all the elements of interpretation which may be of assistance in adjudicating on the case pending before it, whether or not that court has referred to them in its questions. It is, in this context, for the Court to extract from all the information provided by the national court, in particular from the grounds of the decision referring the questions, the points of European Union law which require interpretation, regard being had to the subject-matter of the dispute (see, inter alia, Case C-115/08 ČEZ [2009] ECR I-10265, paragraph 81, and Joined Cases C-307/09 to C-309/09 Vicoplus and Others [2011] ECR I-453, paragraph 22).
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