63With regard to the question whether the date of delivery of the judgment in Hütter (EU:C:2009:381) affects the determination of the starting point of a limitation period fixed by national law, it should be noted that the interpretation which, in the exercise of the jurisdiction conferred on it by Article 267 TFEU, the Court gives to a rule of EU law clarifies and defines, where required, the meaning and scope of that rule as it must be, or ought to have been, understood and applied from the time of its entry into force. In other words, a preliminary ruling does not create or alter the law, but is purely declaratory, with the consequence that in principle it takes effect from the date on which the rule interpreted entered into force (judgment in Pohl, C‑429/12, EU:C:2014:12, paragraph 30 and the case-law cited).
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