48In that regard, it should be stated that it is for the national court alone to determine the subject-matter of the questions which it wishes to refer to the Court. The Court cannot, at the request of one party to the main proceedings, examine questions which have not been submitted to it by the national court. If, in view of the course of the proceedings, the national court were to consider it necessary to obtain further interpretations of EU law, it would be for it to make a fresh reference to the Court (see, to that effect, judgments in CBEM, 311/84, EU:C:1985:394, paragraph 10; Syndesmos Melon tis Eleftheras Evangelikis Ekklisias and Others, C‑381/89, EU:C:1992:142, paragraph 19, and Slob, C‑236/02, EU:C:2004:94, paragraph 29). There is therefore no need for the Court to examine the arguments referred to in paragraph 46 above.
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