Court of Justice, Rules of Procedure: language rules applying to the review procedure

PURPOSE: to amend the Rules of Procedure of the Court of Justice to specify the language rules applicable to the review procedure.

LEGISLATIVE ACT: Council Decision 2008/621/EC, Euratom amending the Rules of Procedure of the Court of Justice of the European Communities as regards the rules governing the language arrangements applicable to the review procedure.

CONTENT: the Council approved a Decision with a view to amending the Court's Rules of Procedure so as to specify that the language applicable to a case will have to be the same as the language of the decision of the Court of First Instance which is subject to review. The purpose is to incorporate into the Rules of Procedure the provisions necessary to govern the conduct of the review procedure provided for in the second paragraph of Article 225 of the EC Treaty and the second paragraph of Article 140a of the EAEC Treaty, the principles governing which are set out in Articles 62 to 62b of the Protocol on the Statute of the Court of Justice (exceptional review procedure by the Court of Justice of decisions of the Court of First Instance where the latter has given a ruling on actions brought against a decision of a judicial panel or has given a ruling on questions referred for a preliminary ruling in specific areas laid down by the Statute of the Court of Justice).

ENTRY INTO FORCE: 01/09/2008.