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Document 11997E256

    Treaty establishing the European Community (Amsterdam consolidated version)
    Part Five: Institutions of the Community
    Title I: Provisions governing the institutions
    Chapter 2: Provisions common to several institutions
    Article 256
    Article 192 - EC Treaty (Maastricht consolidated version)
    Article 192 - EEC Treaty

    Legal status of the document In force

    ELI: http://data.europa.eu/eli/treaty/tec_1997/art_256/oj

    11997E256

    Treaty establishing the European Community (Amsterdam consolidated version) - Part Five: Institutions of the Community - Title I: Provisions governing the institutions - Chapter 2: Provisions common to several institutions - Article 256 - Article 192 - EC Treaty (Maastricht consolidated version) - Article 192 - EEC Treaty

    Official Journal C 340 , 10/11/1997 P. 0282 - Consolidated version
    Official Journal C 224 , 31/08/1992 P. 0067 - Consolidated version
    (EEC Treaty - no official publication available)


    Treaty establishing the European Community (Amsterdam consolidated version)

    Article 256

    Decisions of the Council or of the Commission which impose a pecuniary obligation on persons other than States, shall be enforceable.

    Enforcement shall be governed by the rules of civil procedure in force in the State in the territory of which it is carried out. The order for its enforcement shall be appended to the decision, without other formality than verification of the authenticity of the decision, by the national authority which the government of each Member State shall designate for this purpose and shall make known to the Commission and to the Court of Justice.

    When these formalities have been completed on application by the party concerned, the latter may proceed to enforcement in accordance with the national law, by bringing the matter directly before the competent authority.

    Enforcement may be suspended only by a decision of the Court of Justice. However, the courts of the country concerned shall have jurisdiction over complaints that enforcement is being carried out in an irregular manner.

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