21The Court has also stated that, in those four situations, it cannot, where the referring court does no more than state that the legislation in question applies without distinction to nationals of the Member State concerned and those of other Member States, consider that the request for a preliminary ruling concerning the provisions of the FEU Treaty on the fundamental freedoms is necessary to enable that court to give judgment in the case pending before it. The specific factors that allow a connecting link to be established between the subject matter or circumstances of a dispute, confined in all respects within the single Member State concerned, and those provisions must be apparent from the order for reference (see, to that effect, judgment of 15 November 2016, Ullens de Schooten, C‑268/15, EU:C:2016:874, paragraph 54; orders of 27 April 2017, Emmea and Commercial Hub, C‑595/16, not published, EU:C:2017:320, paragraph 18, and of 31 May 2018, Bán, C‑24/18, not published, EU:C:2018:376, paragraph 17).
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