83It should first be recalled that, in accordance with settled case‑law of the Court, the procedure provided for by Article 267 TFEU is an instrument for cooperation between the Court and national courts by means of which the Court provides national courts with the criteria for the 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‑380/01 Schneider [2004] ECR I‑1389, paragraph 20; and the order of 13 January 2010 in Joined Cases C‑292/09 and C‑293/09 Calestani and Lunardi, paragraph 18).
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