The Gazette 1989

GAZETTE

JANUARY 1989

Stationery Office up to 1986) and

Humphreys'

Index to Irish Statutory

Instruments,

up to date to the end

of 1986, should be consulted.

There is a useful subject Index to

the S.l.s in

Humphreys.

A chrono-

logical list of Statutory Instruments

implementing EC secondary legis-

lation is published in the

Index to

the Statutes.

The Annex to the

twice yearly Report on EC Develop-

ments to the Houses of the

Oireachtas also contains a list of

implementing Statutory Instruments.

International Agreements

International Agreements between

the European Communities and

other international organisations

are published in the

Official Journal

L Series.

Collected agreements

concluded by the European

Communities

have been published

by the EC in 12 volumes to date,

covering the years 1958-1982. An

index to volumes 1-11 incl. was

published in 1986. A Table of Inter-

national Agreements is published in

vol. 52 of

Ha/sbury's Laws of

England

(plus current service).

Case Law

The decisions of the Court of

Justice of the European Com-

munities are published in an official

series,

Reportsof Cases before the

Court,

also entitled

European Court

Reports

and cited as ECR. This

English language series com-

menced in 1973.

(English

translations of the volumes from

1954 to 1972 have been

published.) The authentic version of

a judgment is that in the procedural

language of the case; this version

is included in the ECR. The ECR are

published in approx. 12 loose parts

per year. The most recently

published English language issue

being 1986 — Part 10. Annual

indexes are published.

The main alternative series to the

ECR is the

Common Market Law

Reports

(CMLR), published weekly

by the European Law Centre. While

these reports are not the official

versions, they are more up-to-date,

and, in addition to annual indexes,

cumulated Indexes to a number of

volumes are produced from time to

time. The CMLR include a selection

of decisions of the Commission and

judgments of national courts having

a bearing on EC law in addition to

those of the European Court.

Since 1970 the CMLR include

the text of the judgment of the

European Court in the procedural

language. Since 1988 they include

Antitrust Supplement.

Other sources of EC case law are

the

Proceedings of the Court of

Justice, of the European Commun-

ities, a

weekly bulletin issued free

of charge by the Information Office

of the Court giving a summary of

the judgments and opinions of the

Court during the week in question

and listing new cases. It is useful

primarily as a current awareness

service. The

Times

and

Financial

Times

report the significant Euro-

pean Court judgments in their law

reports section. Short summaries

of recent judgments and details of

new cases are published in the C

Series of the

Official Journal.

Summaries and articles on recent

cases are published in general and

specialised journals, such as the

New Law Journal,

the

European

Law Review,

the

European Com-

petition Law Review,

the

European

Intellectual PropertyReview.

Copies of all the Judgments or

Orders of the Court and Opinions of

Advocates General may be

obtained on subscription from the

Internal Services Division of the

European Court. These are issued

in typescript shortly after the

judgment is given. It is also poss-

ible to order copies of individual

judgments from the Court's

Internal Services Division for a

small fee per document.

The European library file on

LEXIS (marketed in Ireland by Itelis

Ltd.) contains the European Court

Reports 1954-, the Common Mar-

ket Law Reports 1959-, unreported

decisions 1980- and Commission

decisions relating to competition

1972-. CELEX, the EC's database

covers the judgments and opinions

of the European Court 1970-.

Indexes and Digests

As mentioned above the ECR and

CMLR produce their own Indexes.

These Indexes include tables of

Community legislation which list

cases arising under particular treaty

articles, regulations, directives etc.

The Court of Justice publishes a

looseleaf Digest,

Digest of case law

relating to the European Com-

munities.

The main series, the A

series, covers the years 1977-1982.

It was preceded by Eversen &

Sperl,

Compendium of the case

law relating to the EuropeanCom-

munities 1953-1976

(1973-1976

only in English). These Indexes also

allow for searching against specific

Community legislation.

The fullest Index and Citator to

EC case law 1953-1983 is the

Gazetteer

of European Law

published by the European Law

Centre. Commencing in January

1989 the European Law Centre

intend recommencing publication

of the

Gazetteer

under the title of

Case Search Monthly

with annual

cumulated volumes. The period

between 1983 and 1988 will be

covered separately.

Case law can also be traced

through

Current Law's Case Citator,

vols. 51 and 52 of

Ha/sbury's Laws

of England

(plus cumulative

supplement and current service),

Sweet & Maxwell's

Encyclopaedia

of European Community Law.

Judgments Convention

The 1968 Convention on Juris-

diction and Enforcement of

Judgments in Civil and Commercial

matters, has been in force in

original member states since 1

February, 1973. The text of the

1978 Accession Convention (on

the accession of Denmark, Ireland

and the UK), together with the text

of the 1968 Convention and 1971

Protocol, are published at 0JL304,

30.10.78. The Greek Accession

Convention is at OJL388, 31.12.82.

The Convention was implemented

in Ireland by the Jurisdiction of

Courts and Enforcement of Judg-

ments (European Communities)

Act, 1988, which came into force

on 1 June; 1988 (S.I. Na 91 of 1988).

The following Statutory Instru-

ments have been made and are in

force: District Court (Jurisdiction of

Courts and Enforcement of Judg-

ments (European Communities)

Act, 1988) Rules, 1988, S.I. No.

173 of 1988, and Rules of the

Superior Courts (No. 1) 1989, S.I.

No. 14 of 1989. A

Guide to changes

in the Rules of the Superior Courts,

1986, as a consequence of the

coming into operation of the

Jurisdictionof Courts and Enforce-

ment of Judgments (European

Communities)

Act, 1988,

available from the Government

Publications Sales Office.

The

Digest of Case Law relating

to the European Communities,

series, indexes and digests cases

on the interpretation of the

Contd. on page 31.

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