Treatment of questions referred for a preliminary ruling concerning the area of freedom, security and justice - Amendments to the Protocol on the Statute of the Court of Justice

PURPOSE: to allow the introduction, in certain areas, of an urgent preliminary ruling procedure derogating from certain provisions of the Statute of the Court of Justice.

LEGISLATIVE ACT: Council Decision 2008/79/EC, Euratom, amending the Protocol on the Statute of the Court of Justice.

CONTENT: the aim of the Decision is to amend the Protocol on the Statute of the Court of Justice, in order to allow derogations from certain provisions of the Protocol on the Statute of the Court of Justice with regard to the procedure governing urgent references for a preliminary ruling concerning the area of freedom, security and justice. For the sake of good order, the provision authorising such derogations also refers to the expedited and accelerated procedures laid down in the Rules of Procedure of the Court of Justice.

ENTRY INTO FORCE: 01/02/2008