47It is true that, in its reply to the request for clarification sent by the Court concerning the effect of the annulment of the notification decision on the main proceedings, the referring court considered that the customs authorities could adopt new decisions with the same contents as the notification and recovery decisions. However, even assuming that that is still the case, notwithstanding the judgment of 5 July 2012 of the Varhoven administrativen sad, it must be held that to reply to questions asked in such circumstances would amount to providing an advisory opinion on hypothetical questions in disregard of the Court’s task in the context of the judicial cooperation instituted by Article 267 TFEU (see, to that effect, Case 149/82 Robards [1983] ECR 171, paragraph 19; Meilicke, paragraph 25; and Case C-451/99 Cura Anlagen [2002] ECR I-3193, paragraph 26).
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