40According to the settled case-law of the Court, the justification for a request for a preliminary ruling is not that it enables advisory opinions on general or hypothetical questions to be delivered but rather that it is necessary for the effective resolution of a dispute concerning European Union law (Case C-314/96 Djabali [1998] ECR I-1149, paragraph 19; Case C-147/02 Alabaster [2004] ECR I-3101, paragraph 54, and Case C-617/10 Åkerberg Fransson [2013] ECR, paragraph 42).
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