44In that regard, it should be borne in mind that the Court has, on many occasions, held that it had jurisdiction to give preliminary rulings on questions concerning provisions of EU law in situations in which the facts of the cases before the national courts fell outside the scope of that law, provided that those provisions had been rendered applicable by national law, which had adopted, for purely internal situations, the same approach as that provided for under EU law (judgment of 21 July 2016, VM Remonts and Others, C‑542/14, EU:C:2016:578, paragraph 17 and the case-law cited).
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