42It is for the referring court, which alone has jurisdiction to rule on the facts, to determine whether the dispute before it relates to the same facts as those which led to the adoption of the German authority’s final decision, having regard to the territory, product market and period covered by that decision. It is, therefore, for that court to satisfy itself as to the scope of that decision. As the Advocate General observed in point 68 of his Opinion, under Article 12(1) of Regulation No 1/2003, it is possible for a national court, with the assistance of the national competition authority, to request access, from a competition authority of another Member State, to a decision adopted by that authority and to information concerning the content of that decision. However, the Court of Justice may provide the national court with elements of interpretation of EU law in the context of the assessment of that scope.
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