21The Court may refuse to rule on a question referred by a national court only where it is quite obvious that the interpretation of European Union law that is sought bears no relation to the actual facts of the main action or its purpose, where the problem is hypothetical, or where the Court does not have before it the factual or legal material necessary to give a useful answer to the questions submitted to it (see, in particular, Joined Cases C-94/04 and C-202/04 Cipolla and Others [2006] ECR I-11421, paragraph 25; Case C-285/09 R [2010] ECR I-12605, paragraph 32; and Case C-307/10 Chartered Institute of Patent Attorneys [2012] ECR, paragraph 32 and the case-law cited).
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