Relevance for deciding

Pursuant to Article VI.3(c) of the BiH Constitution, an issue referred must be related to the law on the validity of which the decision of ordinary court depends.³⁵⁵⁶ The same applies to the existence or scope of a general rule of public international law. The decision of the Constitutional Court must be specifically relevant for the decision of the lower instance ordinary court.³⁵⁵⁷ The referral of abstract issues is not permitted.