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Document 12002E234

    Treaty establishing the European Community (Nice 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
    Article 177 - EC Treaty (Maastricht consolidated version)
    Article 177 - EEC Treaty

    IO C 325, 24.12.2002, p. 127–128 (ES, DA, DE, EL, EN, FR, IT, NL, PT, FI, SV)

    Legal status of the document In force

    ELI: http://data.europa.eu/eli/treaty/tec_2002/art_234/oj

    12002E234

    Treaty establishing the European Community (Nice 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 - Article 177 - EC Treaty (Maastricht consolidated version) - Article 177 - EEC Treaty

    Official Journal C 325 , 24/12/2002 P. 0127 - 0128
    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)


    Treaty establishing the European Community (Nice 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

    Article 177 - EC Treaty (Maastricht consolidated version)

    Article 177 - EEC Treaty

    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.

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