Treaty establishing the European Community (consolidated version) - Part Five - Institutions of the Community - TITLE I - Provisions governing the institutions - Chapter 1 - The institutions - Section 4 - The Court of Justice - Article 234
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Official Journal C 325 , 24/12/2002 P. 0127 - Consolidated version
Official Journal C 340 , 10/11/1997 P. 0273 - Consolidated version
Official Journal C 224 , 31/08/1992 P. 0063 - Consolidated version
(EEC Treaty - no official publication available)
Article 234 The Court of Justice shall have jurisdiction to give preliminary rulings concerning: (a) the interpretation of this Treaty; (b) the validity and interpretation of acts of the institutions of the Community and of the ECB; (c) the interpretation of the statutes of bodies established by an act of the Council, where those statutes so provide. Where such a question is raised before any court or tribunal of a Member State, that court or tribunal may, if it considers that a decision on the question is necessary to enable it to give judgment, request the Court of Justice to give a ruling thereon. Where any such question is raised in a case pending before a court or tribunal of a Member State against whose decisions there is no judicial remedy under national law, that court or tribunal shall bring the matter before the Court of Justice. --------------------------------------------------