60In that regard, it should be borne in mind that the need to arrive at an interpretation of EU law which will be of use to the referring court requires that court to define the factual and legislative context of the questions it is asking, or at the very least to explain the factual circumstances on which those questions are based. In the procedure established by Article 267 TFEU, the Court is empowered to give rulings on the interpretation of EU legislation only on the basis of the facts which the national court puts before it (judgments of 26 October 2017, Balgarska energiyna borsa, C‑347/16, EU:C:2017:816, paragraph 56 and the case-law cited, and of 16 July 2020, Adusbef and Others, C‑686/18, EU:C:2020:567, paragraph 36).
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