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# E1995J0302(01)

**AMENDMENTS TO THE RULES OF PROCEDURE OF THE EFTA COURT, adopted on 9 January 1995 (Only the English text is authentic) **

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Official Journal L 047 , 02/03/1995 P. 0031 - 0032 *

AMENDMENTS TO THE RULES OF PROCEDURE OF THE EFTA COURT,

adopted on 9 January 1995 (1*) (Only the English text is authentic)

THE EFTA COURT,

Having regard to the Agreement on Transitional Arrangements for a Period after the Accession of Certain EFTA States to the European Union, signed in Brussels on 28 September 1994, and in particular Article 6 (c) thereof,

Whereas Article 6 (c) of that Agreement encourages the Court to shorten procedural time-limits and Article 7 thereof provides that the Court shall conclude all pending cases within six months after accession,

ADOPTS THE FOLLOWING DECISION:

Article 1

Amendments

1. Article 64, first subparagraph, shall be replaced by the following:

'If the Court should omit to give a decision on a specific head of claim or on costs, any party may within two weeks after service of the judgment apply to the Court to supplement its judgment.`

2. Article 89 (1), first subparagraph, shall be replaced by the following:

'An application to intervene must be made within one month of the publication of the notice referred to in Article 14 (6). However, an application under Article 36, first paragraph, of the Statute must be made within one month after the notification made pursuant to Article 20 of the Statute.`

3. Article 91 (1), third subparagraph, shall be replaced by the following:

'Where the judgment has been published in the EEA Section of, and the EEA Supplement to, the Official Journal of the European Communities, the application must be lodged within one month of the publication.`

4. Article 92 shall be replaced by the following:

'An application for revision of a judgment shall be made within one month of the date on which the facts on which the application is based, came to the applicant's knowledge.`

Article 2

Final provisions

1. This Decision shall apply to cases dealt with by the Court under the Agreement on Transitional Arrangements for a Period after the Accession of Certain EFTA States to the European Union, including cases covered by Article 1 (2), first subparagraph, of that Agreement.

2. This Decision shall enter into force with effect from the date of the accession of Austria, Finland and Sweden to the European Union, subject to the Agreement on Transitional Arrangements mentioned above taking effect. It shall apply to time-limits which start to run after the entry into force of this Decision.

3. This Decision, which is authentic in the English language, shall be published in the EEA Section of, and the EEA Supplement to, the Official Journal of the European Communities.

4. This Decision shall be officially translated by the Court into the Finnish, German, Icelandic, Norwegian and Swedish languages.

(1*) The Rules of Procedure were adopted by the Court on 4 January and 1 February 1994 and approved by the EFTA States.

DECLARATION

The Court will, in individual cases, exercise the competences conferred upon it by the Rules of Procedure to prescribe or shorten procedural time-limits, in a manner that takes due account of the basic procedural rights of the parties concerned as well as of the fact that the future of the Court in its present form is limited in time, as laid down in the Agreement on Transitional Arrangements for a Period after the Accession of Certain EFTA States to the European Union.