Translation of "Vorlageverfahren" in English

To prevent this happening, there is a ‘preliminary ruling procedure’.

To prevent this happening, there is a ‘preliminary ruling procedure’.

All parties to the present referral proceedings have made comprehensive submissions.

Otherwise, legal uncertainty and new EuGH preliminary ruling procedure were inevitable.

There are currently four cases pending before the Enlarged Board.

In 2009, oral proceedings were held in three cases referred to the Enlarged Board of Appeal.

For these reasons the following point of law was referred to the Enlarged Board of Appeal (referral G1/14):

They shall also apply, in the context of references for a preliminary ruling, to the parties to the main proceedings where, in accordance with the national rules of procedure applicable, those parties are permitted to bring or defend court proceedings without being represented by a lawyer, and to persons authorised under those rules to represent them.

A decision on whether cases should be joined shall be taken by the President after hearing the Judge-Rapporteur and the Advocate General, if the cases concerned have already been assigned, and, save in the case of references for a preliminary ruling, after also hearing the parties.

This is particularly the case where referrals to the ECJ for a preliminary ruling under Article 177 ofthe Treaty (a "reference") are concerned.

The reference for a preliminary ruling with which we are concerned today raises questions relating to the interpretation of Regulation (EEC) No 803/68 of the Council of 27 June 1968 on the valuation of goods for customs purposes (Official Journal, English Special Edition 1968 (I), p. 170).

Particularly since the Federal Labour Court stipulated the date of the protection of confidence as the date of referral to the ECJ in its decision of 24 March 2009 (docket no.: 9 AZR 983/07), de facto every single referral proceeding needs to be known in order to estimate what consequences - mostly financial - will have to be considered.

The Finnish court conducted the preliminary proceedings in connection with a lawsuit in which the workers' union AKT inter alia had sued a supply enterprise.

As already announced (cf. Newsletter III/2011), the ECJ has now used a further preliminary ruling to correct its case law and give the employer some points of orientation as to when a claim to payment in lieu of holiday validly expires.

It is to be noticed that the President is not a party in a referral procedure because she or he can not be adversely affected by answers given by the Enlarged Board.

On a site with limited access, the participating national courts and the CJEU publish information on their jurisprudence concerning EU law, on questions which the national courts referred to the CJEU for a preliminary ruling as well as on notes and studies.

In 2006 there were three new referrals to the Enlarged Board of Appeal (2005: 1), but no outstanding cases were settled (2005: 4).

In the interlocutory decision of the Enlarged Board of Appeal G 3/08 dated 16 October 2009 the Enlarged Board noted that in referral cases under Art.

In 2007 there were two new referrals to the Enlarged Board of Appeal (2006: 3) and three cases were settled (2006: 0).

It is clear from question 1 and the claims underlying the referral that the step potentially to be considered as a surgical step is only one step in a multi-step method and the claimed imaging method is not directed to surgery as such.

The ECJ will thus withdraw recognition under European law of the Interstate Treaty on Gambling at the latest in the scope of the German preliminary ruling on Carmen Media.