Court of Justice of the EU

Amending the Statute of the Court of Justice of the EU: Reform of the preliminary reference procedure and extension of the leave to appeal requirement [EU Legislation in Progress]

On 30 November 2022, the President of the Court of Justice of the EU (CJEU), Professor Koen Lenaerts, submitted to the European Parliament and the Council of the EU, on behalf of the CJEU, a proposal to amend Protocol No 3 on the Statute of the Court of Justice of the European Union (the SCJEU or the Statute).

October 31, 2023
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60 years of Van Gend & Loos: Direct effect of EU law and a ‘new legal order’

The 5 February 1963 judgment of the Court of Justice in Case 26/62 N.V. Algemente Transport- en Expeditie Onderneming van Gend & Loos v Nederlandse administratie der belastingen (in short ‘Van Gend & Loos’) is one of the milestones of the Court’s jurisprudence and a fundamental building block of EU constitutional law, ‘universally celebrated as perhaps the most important case of the Court’, alongside the Costa v ENEL ruling of 15 July1964.

February 7, 2023
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