36It should be borne in mind in that regard that it has consistently been held that the procedure provided for in Article 267 TFEU is an instrument for cooperation between the Court of Justice and the national courts, by means of which the Court provides the national courts with the points of interpretation of European Union law which they need in order to decide the disputes before them (see, inter alia, Case C-314/96 Djabali [1998] ECR I-1149, paragraph 17; Case C-225/02 García Blanco [2005] ECR I-523, paragraph 26; and Case C-197/10 Unió de Pagesos de Catalunya [2011] ECR I-8495, paragraph 16).
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