2004/405/EC,Euratom: Council Decision of 19 April 2004 amending Article 29(1) of the Rules of Procedure of the Court of Justice of the European Communities
Date: 2004-04-19
Institutions: Council of the European Union
Subjects: Court of Justice of the European Union, EU Accession Treaty, accession to the European Union, official language

L 132/2

EN

Official Journal of the European Union

29.4.2004

COUNCIL DECISION

of 19 April 2004

amending Article 29(1) of the Rules of Procedure of the Court of Justice of the European
Communities

(2004/405/EC, Euratom)

THE COUNCIL OF THE EUROPEAN UNION,

Having regard to Article 64 of the Protocol on the Statute of
the Court of Justice,

In accordance with the procedure referred to in the second
paragraph of Article 245 of
the Treaty establishing the
European Community and the second paragraph of Article
160 of the Treaty establishing the European Atomic Energy
Community,

Having regard to the request of the Court of Justice of 21
November 2003,

Having regard to the opinion of the European Parliament of
30 March 2004,

Having regard to the opinion of the Commission of 1 March
2004,

Whereas:

the Treaty concerning the
With the entry into force of
accession of the Czech Republic, the Republic of Estonia, the
Republic of Cyprus, the Republic of Latvia, the Republic of
Lithuania, the Republic of Hungary, the Republic of Malta, the
Republic of Poland, the Republic of Slovenia and the Slovak
Republic to the European Union (1), the new official languages,
namely Czech, Estonian, Hungarian, Latvian, Lithuanian,
Maltese, Polish, Slovak and Slovene, should be added to the list
of languages of the case provided for in Article 29(1) of the
Rules of Procedure of the Court of Justice of the European
Communities,

Corrigendum: OJ L 383, 29.12.1992, p. 117), as amended on
21 February 1995 (OJ L 44, 28.2.1995, p. 61), 11 March 1997
(OJ L 103, 19.4.1997, p. 1, Corrigendum: OJ L 351,
23.12.1997, p. 72), 16 May 2000 (OJ L 122, 24.5.2000, p. 43),
28 November 2000 (OJ L 322, 19.12.2000, p. 1), 3 April
2001 (OJ L 119, 27.4.2001, p. 1), 17 September 2002 (OJ L
272, 10.10.2002, p. 24, Corrigendum: OJ L 272, 19.10.2002,
p. 24), and 8 April 2003 (OJ L 147, 14.6.2003, p. 17), are
hereby amended as follows:

Article 29(1) shall be replaced by the following:

‘The language of a case shall be Czech, Danish, Dutch,
English,
French, German, Greek,
Hungarian,
Italian, Latvian, Lithuanian, Maltese,
Polish, Portuguese, Slovak, Slovene, Spanish or Swedish.'

Estonian,
Irish,

Finnish,

Article 2

This Decision shall take effect at the same time as the Treaty
concerning the accession of the Czech Republic, the Republic
of Estonia, the Republic of Cyprus, the Republic of Latvia, the
Republic of Lithuania, the Republic of Hungary, the Republic
of Malta, the Republic of Poland, the Republic of Slovenia and
the Slovak Republic to the European Union.

The texts of the Rules of Procedure of the Court of Justice in
Czech, Estonian, Hungarian, Latvian, Lithuanian, Maltese,
Polish, Slovak and Slovene shall be adopted after the entry into
force of the Treaty referred to in the first paragraph.

HAS DECIDED AS FOLLOWS:

Done at Brussels, 19 April 2004.

Article 1

The Rules of Procedure of the Court of Justice of the European
Communities of 19 June 1991 (OJ L 176, 4.7.1991, p. 7,

For the Council

The President

B. COWEN

(1) OJ L 236, 23.9.2003, p. 17.