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Preliminary rulings ° Admissibility ° Question put without any particulars of the factual and legislative context

(EEC Treaty, Art. 177)

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The need to arrive at an interpretation of Community law which will be of use to the national court requires that that court should define the factual and legislative context of the questions which it refers, or at least explain the assumptions of fact on which those questions are based. Those requirements apply with particular force in the area of competition, which is characterized by complex situations of fact and law.