Access to the case-law by case number makes it possible to find information relating to every case brought before the Court of Justice and the General Court between 1953 and the present day, and before the Civil Service Tribunal between 2005 and 2016.
Cases are listed by number in the order in which they were lodged at the relevant Registry.
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Cases may be consulted by clicking on the case number.

• The texts of judgments and orders in cases lodged up to and including 1997 which have been published in the European Court Reports may be consulted by clicking on the case number and following the link to EUR-Lex, the interinstitutional database.
• Cases lodged since 1998 may be consulted by clicking on the case number and following that link to all the texts relating to the case in question which are contained in the case-law database of this site.

- The historic case-law in the languages of the Member States which acceded to the European Union in 2004 and 2007