26According to settled case-law, the procedure provided for in Article 267 TFEU is an instrument of cooperation between the Court and the national courts, by means of which the former provides the latter 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-83/91 Meilicke [1992] ECR I-4871, paragraph 22; Case C-445/06 Danske Slagterier [2009] ECR I-2119, paragraph 65; and Case C-307/10 The Chartered Institute of Patent Attorneys [2012] ECR, paragraph 31).
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