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Michala Meiselles

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EU preliminary references: Article 267 TFEU duties, 'national court or tribunal' test, 2024 General Court jurisdiction, procedure, interventions, expedited/urgent routes, rectification, interpretation, and costs
PRACTICE NOTES
EU preliminary references: Article 267 TFEU duties, 'national court or tribunal' test, 2024 General Court jurisdiction, procedure, interventions, expedited/urgent routes, rectification, interpretation, and costs
If a national court or tribunal in an EU Member State considers the meaning of a point of EU law unclear for a live dispute, it may—and in certain instances must—seek a preliminary ruling from the Court of Justice or the General Court. This Practice Note sets out the characteristics of the preliminary ruling mechanism together with: the scope and aims of the mechanism the situations in which a court or tribunal may, or is obliged to, submit a preliminary reference the proper moment to lodge the request for a preliminary ruling what is meant by ‘national court’ and ‘national tribunal’ for these purposes the method for making a request for a preliminary ruling, and the phases of a preliminary reference Background reading and statistics on preliminary references can be found in the annual reports of the Court of
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