29Moreover, to answer requests to amend the questions formulated by the parties in the main proceedings would be incompatible with the function given to the Court by Article 267 TFEU and with its duty to ensure that the governments of the Member States and the parties concerned are given the opportunity to submit observations in accordance with Article 23 of the Statute of the Court of Justice of the European Union, bearing in mind that, under that provision, only the order of the referring court is notified to the interested parties (see, inter alia, judgment in Phytheron International, C‑352/95, EU:C:1997:170, paragraph 14, and, to that effect, judgment in Santesteban Goicoechea, C‑296/08 PPU, EU:C:2008:457, paragraph 47).
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