32In that regulatory context, with a view to interpreting the term ‘court’ contained in Article 1(a)(iii) of the Framework Decision, it is appropriate to rely on the criteria identified by the Court of Justice for determining whether a referring body is a ‘court or tribunal’ for the purposes of Article 267 TFEU. To that end, according to settled case-law, the Court takes account of a number of factors, such as whether the body is established by law, whether it is permanent, whether its jurisdiction is compulsory, whether its procedure is inter partes, whether it applies rules of law and whether it is independent (see, by analogy, Case C-196/09 Miles and Others [2011] ECR I-5105, paragraph 37 and the case-law cited).
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