45Secondly, it is common ground that, in the context of the procedure referred to in Article 267 TFEU, which is based on a clear separation of functions between the national courts and the Court, the national court alone is competent to interpret and apply provisions of national law, whereas the Court is empowered solely to rule on the interpretation or validity of an EU text on the basis of the facts presented to it by the national court (judgment of 21 December 2021, Trapeza Peiraios, C‑243/20, EU:C:2021:1045, paragraph 26 and the case-law cited).
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