51As a preliminary point, it should be recalled that a question referred for a preliminary ruling must be examined in the light of all the provisions of the Treaties and of secondary legislation which may be relevant to the issue raised (see, to that effect, judgment of 11 July 1985, Mutsch, 137/84, EU:C:1985:335, paragraph 10). The fact that a national court’s question refers to certain provisions of EU law does not mean therefore that the Court of Justice may not provide the national court with all the guidance on points of interpretation that may be of assistance in adjudicating on the case pending before it, whether or not that court has referred to those points in its question (see, to that effect, judgments of 12 December 1990, SARPP, C‑241/89, EU:C:1990:459, paragraph 8, and of 8 June 2017, Medisanus, C‑296/15, EU:C:2017:431, paragraph 55).
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