2008/621/EC,Euratom: Council Decision of 23 June 2008 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
Date: 2008-07-08
Institutions: Council of the European Union
Subjects: Court of Justice of the European Union, administrative procedure, judicial proceedings, official language, operation of the Institutions, use of languages

L 200/20

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Official Journal of the European Union

29.7.2008

(Acts adopted under the EC Treaty/Euratom Treaty whose publication is not obligatory)

II

DECISIONS

COUNCIL

COUNCIL DECISION

of 23 June 2008

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

(2008/621/EC, Euratom)

THE COUNCIL OF THE EUROPEAN UNION,

HAS DECIDED AS FOLLOWS:

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

Article 1

In accordance with the procedure laid down in the second
the Treaty establishing the
paragraph of Article 245 of
European Community
of
the
Article 160 of the Treaty establishing the European Atomic
Energy Committee,

paragraph

second

and

Having regard to the request of
4 February 2008,

the Court of

Justice of

Having regard to the opinion of the European Parliament of
17 June 2008,

Having regard to the opinion of the Commission of 14 March
2008,

the

laid

governing

review procedure

Whereas the Rules of Procedure should specify certain detailed
rules
in
Article 225(2) and (3) of the Treaty establishing the European
Community and Article 140a(2) and (3) of the Treaty estab­
lishing the European Atomic Energy Committee, the principles
the
governing which are set out
Protocol on the Statute of
in
particular, should lay down the detailed rules governing the
language arrangements applicable to that procedure,

in Articles 62 to 62b of
Justice, and,
the Court of

down

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, with
corrigendum in 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, with corrigendum in 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, with corrigendum in OJ
L 281, 19.10.2002, p. 24), 8 April 2003 (OJ L 147, 14.6.2003,
p. 17), 19 April 2004 (OJ L 132, 29.4.2004, p. 2), 20 April
2004 (OJ L 127, 29.4.2004, p. 107), 12 July 2005 (OJ L 203,
4.8.2005, p. 19), 18 October 2005 (OJ L 288, 29.10.2005,
p. 51) and 18 December 2006 (OJ L 386, 29.12.2006,
p. 44) are hereby amended as follows:

After Article 123, there shall be inserted in the Title headed
‘Title IVa: Review of Decisions of the Court of First Instance’ an
Article 123a, to be worded as follows:

‘Article 123a

to the

arrangements

Without prejudice
laid down in
Article 29(2)(b) and (c) and the fourth and fifth subpara­
graphs of Article 29(3) of these Rules, where, in accordance
with the second paragraph of Article 62 of the Statute, the
Court decides to review a decision of the Court of First
Instance, the language of the case shall be the language of
the decision of the Court of First Instance which is subject to
review.’.

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This Decision shall enter into force on the first day of the second month following its publication in the
Official Journal of the European Union.

Article 2

Done at Luxembourg, 23 June 2008.

For the Council
The President

I. JARC