AMENDMENT OF THE RULES OF PROCEDURE OF THE GENERAL COURT

THE GENERAL COURT,

Having regard to the Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union, and in particular the fifth paragraph of Article 254 thereof,

Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European Atomic Energy Community, and in particular Article 106a(1) thereof,

Having regard to the second paragraph of Article 64 of the Protocol on the Statute of the Court of Justice of the European Union,

Having regard to the agreement of the Court of Justice,

Whereas, on the accession of the Republic of Croatia, Croatian becomes an official language of the European Union and should be added to the list of languages of a case set out in the Rules of Procedure,

With the approval of the Council given on 7 June 2013,

HAS ADOPTED THE FOLLOWING AMENDMENT TO ITS RULES OF PROCEDURE:

Article 1

The Rules of Procedure of the General Court of 2 May 1991 (OJ L 136, 30 May 1991, p. 1, with corrigendum in OJ L 317, 19 November 1991, p. 34) (1) are hereby amended as follows:

Article 35(1) shall be replaced by the following:

‘The language of a case shall be Bulgarian, Croatian, Czech, Danish, Dutch, English, Estonian, Finnish, French, German, Greek, Hungarian, Irish, Italian, Latvian, Lithuanian, Maltese, Polish, Portuguese, Romanian, Slovak, Slovene, Spanish or Swedish.’.

Article 2

1. This amendment to the Rules of Procedure shall be published in the Official Journal of the European Union. It shall enter into force at the same time as the Treaty concerning the accession of the Republic of Croatia to the European Union.

2. The text of the Rules of Procedure in Croatian shall be adopted after the entry into force of the Treaty referred to in the preceding paragraph.

Done at Luxembourg, 19 June 2013.

E. COULON

Registrar

M. JAEGER

President

(1) Amended on 15 September 1994 (OJ L 249, 24 September 1994, p. 17), 17 February 1995 (OJ L 44, 28 February 1995, p. 64), 6 July 1995 (OJ L 172, 22 July 1995, p. 3), 12 March 1997 (OJ L 103, 19 April 1997, p. 6, corrigendum in OJ L 351, 23 December 1997, p. 72), 17 May 1999 (OJ L 135, 29 May 1999, p. 92), 6 December 2000 (OJ L 322, 19 December 2000, p. 4), 21 May 2003 (OJ L 147, 14 June 2003, p. 22), 19 April 2004 (OJ L 132, 29 April 2004, p. 3), 21 April 2004 (OJ L 127, 29 April 2004, p. 108), 12 October 2005 (OJ L 298, 15 November 2005, p. 1), 18 December 2006 (OJ L 386, 29 December 2006, p. 45), 12 June 2008 (OJ L 179, 8 July 2008, p. 12), 14 January 2009 (OJ L 24, 28 January 2009, p. 9), 16 February 2009 (OJ L 60, 4 March 2009, p. 3), 7 July 2009 (OJ L 184, 16 July 2009, p. 10), 26 March 2010 (OJ L 92, 13 April 2010, p. 14) and 24 May 2011 (OJ L 162, 22 June 2011, p. 18).