63Lastly, as regard the inter partes nature of the procedure pending before the referring court, it is sufficient to note that, according to the Court’s settled case-law, Article 267 TFEU does not make the reference to the Court subject to there having been an inter partes hearing in the proceedings. On the contrary, it follows from that article that a national court may refer a question to the Court only if there is a case pending before it and if it is called upon to give judgment in proceedings intended to lead to a decision of a judicial nature (judgments of 16 December 2008, Cartesio, C‑210/06, EU:C:2008:723, paragraph 56, and of 4 September 2019, Salvoni, C‑347/18, EU:C:2019:661, paragraph 26 and the case-law cited). This is the case here.
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