20Applying that case-law, the Court has repeatedly held that it has jurisdiction to give preliminary rulings on questions concerning European Union law in situations where the facts of the cases being considered by the national courts were outside the direct scope of European Union law but where those provisions had been rendered applicable by domestic law, which adopted, for internal situations, the same approach as that provided for under European Union law. In those circumstances, it is clearly in the interest of the European Union that, in order to forestall future differences of interpretation, provisions or concepts taken from European Union law should be interpreted uniformly, irrespective of the circumstances in which they are to apply (see, to that effect, inter alia, Joined Cases C-297/88 and C-197/89 Dzodzi [1990] ECR I-3763, paragraph 37; Case C-28/95 Leur-Bloem [1997] ECR I-4161, paragraphs 27 and 32; Case C-1/99 Kofisa Italia [2001] ECR I-207, paragraph 32; Case C-217/05 Confederación Española de Empresarios de Estaciones de Servicio [2006] ECR I-11987, paragraph 19; Case C-280/06 ETI and Others [2007] ECR I-10893, paragraph 21; Case C-352/08 Modehuis A. Zwijnenburg [2010] ECR I-4303, paragraph 33; and Case C-603/10 Pelati [2012] ECR, paragraph 18).
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