Judgment_paragraph 23 · Ilie Nicolae Nicula v Administraţia Finanţelor Publice a Municipiului Sibiu and Administraţia Fondului pentru Mediu (C-331/13)

23It should be noted in that regard that the Court may refuse to rule on a question referred for a preliminary ruling by a national court only where it is quite obvious that the interpretation of EU law that is sought bears no relation to the actual facts of the main action or its purpose, where the problem is hypothetical, or where the Court does not have before it the factual or legal material necessary to give a useful answer to the questions submitted to it (judgment in Zurita García and Choque Cabrera, EU:C:2009:648, paragraph 35).