Judgments and Opinions
Reports of Cases before the Court of Justice and the Court of First Instance
The Reports of Cases are published in the official Community languages and are the only authentic source for citations of decisions of the Court of Justice and the Court of First Instance.
The year's last issue of the Reports contains a chronological table of the decisions published, a table of cases in numerical order, an alphabetical index of parties, a table of Community legislation cited, an alphabetical index of subject-matter and, since 1991, a new systematic table of all the summaries for the cases reported, including headwords.
Further information: Contents of the case-law database on Curia, principles of publication
Cost of an annual subscription: EUR 200.
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Reports of European Community Staff Cases
The Reports of European Community Staff Cases contain all the decisions in staff cases of the Court of First Instance since 1994 and of the Civil Service Tribunal since 12 December 2005 in the language of the case, together with an abstract in one of the official languages, at the subscriber's choice. If warranted by the legal interest of a judgment, the judgment is published in full in all the official languages.
The Reports also contain judgments in the language of the case and summaries of judgments delivered by the Court of Justice and the Court of First Instance on appeal in staff cases.
Further information: Contents of the case-law database on Curia, principles of publication.
Cost of an annual subscription: EUR 100 (EUR 250 for an annual subscription to both publications).
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Judgments of the Court of Justice, Court of First Instance and Civil Service Tribunal and Opinions of the Advocates General
Orders for roneoed copies may be made in writing, stating the language required, subject to availability of stocks and to payment of a fixed charge for each document. Current charges are EUR 14.87, excluding VAT, for postal delivery, and EUR 39.66, excluding VAT, for delivery by fax, but these are subject to alteration. Orders will no longer be accepted once the issue of the Reports containing the required judgment or Opinion has been published.
Subscribers to the Reports may pay a subscription to receive offset copies in one or more of the official Community languages of the texts contained in the Reports of Cases before the Court of Justice and the Court of First Instance, with the exception of texts appearing only in the Reports of European Community Staff Cases. The current annual subscription fee is EUR 360, excluding VAT.
Please note that all judgments and some orders of the Court of Justice, the Court of First Instance and the Civil Service Tribunal are available quickly and free of charge on Curia, under the heading ‘Case-law', from approximately midday on the day of delivery. The Advocates General's Opinions are also available under that heading in the language of the Advocate General as well as, initially, in the language of the case.
Orders should be sent to the Directorate-General for Infrastructure, Publications Unit, L-2925 Luxembourg.
Texts governing procedure
The main provisions of primary and secondary legislation concerning the organisation, jurisdiction and procedure before the Court of Justice, the Court of First Instance and the Civil Service Tribunal are available on Curia in all the official languages of the European Union.
Draft amendments of texts currently in force and various discussion documents are also available for consultation.
Court of Justice
General Court
Civil Service Tribunal
Library, Research and Documentation
The Directorate-General for Library, Research and Documentation has developed a number of tools facilitating access to the case-law of the Court of Justice, the Court of First Instance and the Civil Service Tribunal, to legal literature and to Community and national case-law relating to the Brussels and Lugano Conventions.
Some printed publications have been replaced by electronic versions available on the Curia website, enabling them to be disseminated quickly and free of charge.
Legal Bibliography of European Integration
Annual publication based on monographs acquired and periodicals catalogued during the year in question in the area of Community law. An official publication of the European Communities since 1990, the Bibliography contains approximately 6 000 bibliographical references, which can be accessed via a subject-matter index and an index of authors.
Price: EUR 50, excluding VAT.
Orders should be sent to the Directorate-General for Infrastructure, Publications Unit, L-2925 Luxembourg.
Digest of European Community case-law 1977-1990
The ‘Digest of European Community case-law - Series A', which covers the case-law of the Court of Justice and the Court of First Instance, excluding cases brought by officials and other servants of the European Communities and cases relating to the Brussels Convention on Jurisdiction and the Enforcement of Judgments in Civil and Commercial Matters, was first published in loose-leaf form. A consolidated and bound edition, entitled ‘Répertoire de jurisprudence de droit communautaire 1977-1990', appeared in French and German in 1995 and 1998, respectively.
Price (consolidated edition): EUR 100, excluding VAT.
Orders should be sent to the Directorate-General for Infrastructure, Publications Unit, L-2925 Luxembourg.
Brussels and Lugano Conventions - Multilingual edition
A collection of texts of the Brussels Convention of 27 September 1968 and the Lugano Convention of 16 September 1988 on Jurisdiction and the Enforcement of Judgments in Civil and Commercial Matters, together with the acts of accession, protocols and declarations relating thereto, in all the original languages.
This book, which contains an introduction in English and French, was published in 1997.
Price: EUR 30, excluding VAT.
Orders should be sent to the Directorate-General for Infrastructure, Publications Unit, L-2925 Luxembourg.
‘Bulletin périodique de jurisprudence'
Research tool, in French, not commercially available: an annual compilation of the summaries of the judgments and orders of the Court of Justice and of the Court of First Instance, identical in format to the ‘Répertoire de jurisprudence de droit communautaire'. A consolidated version covering the case-law from 1991 to 1995 is also available.
This publication may be obtained free of charge, subject to availability, on request from the Research and Documentation Directorate of the Court of Justice (L-2925 Luxembourg). However, please note that a cumulative version from 1954, updated weekly, is available on the Curia website (see 7).
‘Jurisprudence en matière de fonction publique communautaire'
Cumulative publication from 1988, in French, of abstracts of the decisions of the Court of Justice, the Court of First Instance and the Civil Service Tribunal in cases brought by officials and other servants of the European Communities.
This publication may be obtained free of charge, subject to availability, on request from the Research and Documentation Directorate of the Court of Justice (L-2925 Luxembourg). However, please note that a cumulative version from 1954, updated weekly, is available on the Curia website (see 7).
Current bibliography
Bi-monthly bibliography comprising a complete list of all the works (monographs and articles) received or catalogued during the reference period. The bibliography is in two separate parts:
Part A: Legal publications on European integration;
Part B: Jurisprudence, international law, comparative law, national legal systems.
The current bibliography has been available since January 2000 at: Current bibliography. (Please note : the above item exists only in French)
Case-law digest
The ‘Répertoire de jurisprudence communautaire' (Digest of Community case-law) is a compilation of summaries of the judgments and orders of the Court of Justice and Court of First Instance of the European Communities and of the European Union Civil Service Tribunal delivered since their inception, in a layout following that of the Digest of European Community case-law - Series A published by the Court of Justice in respect of the period 1977-1990 (see 2 above).
The Case-law digest exists in French, is updated weekly and is available at: Case-law digest.
Numerical access to the case-law
Numerical list of all cases brought before the Court of Justice, the Court of First Instance and the Civil Service Tribunal since their creation. The list, in French and English, is updated daily and and contains links to decisions and to information relating to the cases available on the EUR-Lex or Curia websites.
Notes
This publication, available on Curia, provides references for all the legal literature relating to judgments of the Court of Justice, the Court of First Instance and the Civil Service Tribunal.
‘Reflets' - Brief information on legal developments of Community interest
Information bulletin, in French, providing an overview of the decisions of international and national courts and tribunals, the practices of international organisations and national legislation of interest to Community case-law.
Three bulletins are normally published annually and are available (as from 1999) on Curia.
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