41It is also clear from the case-law of the Court of Justice that, if the referring court expressly stated in its order for reference that it did not consider it necessary to ask a question or if it implicitly refused to submit to the Court of Justice a question raised by one of the parties, the Court of Justice may not answer that question or take it into account in the reference for a preliminary ruling (see, to that effect, judgments of 5 October 1988, Alsatel, 247/86, EU:C:1988:469, paragraph 8; of 2 June 1994, AC-ATEL Electronics Vertriebs, C‑30/93, EU:C:1994:224, paragraph 19; and of 26 September 2000, Engelbrecht, C‑262/97, EU:C:2000:492, paragraphs 21 and 22).
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