Judgment_paragraph 53 · Mihai Manea v Instituția Prefectului județul Brașov - Serviciul Public Comunitar Regim de Permise de Conducere și Inmatriculare a Vehiculelor (C-76/14)

53In accordance with settled case-law, the interpretation which the Court, in the exercise of the jurisdiction conferred upon it by Article 267 TFEU, gives to a rule of EU law clarifies and, where necessary, defines the meaning and scope of that rule as it must be, or ought to have been, understood and applied from the time of its coming into force. It follows that the rule as thus interpreted may, and must, be applied by the courts even to legal relationships arising and established before the delivery of the judgment ruling on the request for interpretation, provided that in other respects the conditions under which an action relating to the application of that rule may be brought before the courts having jurisdiction are satisfied (see, inter alia, judgments in Blaizot and Others, 24/86, EU:C:1988:43, paragraph 27; Skov and Bilka, C‑402/03, EU:C:2006:6, paragraph 50; and Brzeziński, C‑313/05, EU:C:2007:33, paragraph 55).