17In that connection, the Court has on many occasions held that it had jurisdiction to give preliminary rulings on questions concerning provisions of EU law in situations in which the facts of the cases before the national courts fell outside the scope of that law, provided that those provisions had been rendered applicable by national law, which had adopted, for purely internal situations, the same approach as that provided for under EU law. In such cases, according to the settled case-law of the Court, it is clearly in the interest of the European Union that, in order to forestall future differences of interpretation, provisions or concepts taken from EU law should be interpreted uniformly, irrespective of the circumstances in which they are to apply (see, inter alia, judgments of 14 March 2013 in Allianz Hungária Biztosító and Others, C‑32/11, EU:C:2013:160, paragraph 20; 4 December 2014 in FNV Kunsten Informatie en Media, C‑413/13, EU:C:2014:2411, paragraph 18; and 26 November 2015 in Maxima Latvija, C‑345/14, EU:C:2015:784, paragraph 12).
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