39It follows from the Court’s established case-law that if a classification regulation is not directly applicable to products which are not identical, but only similar to the product covered by that regulation, the latter is applicable by analogy to such products (see, to that effect, inter alia, judgments of 4 March 2004, Krings, C‑130/02, EU:C:2004:122, paragraphs 34 and 35, and 13 July 2006, Anagram International, C‑14/05, EU:C:2006:465, paragraphs 31 to 33). Therefore, where a national court has doubts as to the validity of a classification regulation which it must apply by analogy to goods which are sufficiently similar to those covered by that regulation, it is justified for that court to submit a request for a preliminary ruling to the Court to assess the validity of that regulation (see, to that effect, inter alia, judgment of 19 February 2009, Kamino International Logistics (C‑376/07, EU:C:2009:105, paragraph 69).
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