35Nevertheless, the jurisdiction of the Court is confined to considering provisions of EU law only. In its reply to the national court, it cannot take account of the general scheme of the provisions of domestic law which, while referring to EU law, define the extent of that reference. Consideration of the limits which the national legislature may have placed on the application of EU law to purely internal situations, to which it is applicable only through the operation of the national legislation, is a matter for domestic law and hence falls within the exclusive jurisdiction of the courts of the Member State (see to that effect, judgment of 18 October 1990, Dzodzi, C‑297/88 and C‑197/89, EU:C:1990:360, paragraph 42).
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