Competition European Law

Tag: Court system Overview

  • Court System Outcome

    OutcomeThe normal outcome of a Court case is the delivery of a judgment after the written and oral procedure.More about Court System OutcomeIn particular situations, the outcome may however take the form of an "order" ("ordonnance"), adopted without an oral proc…

  • Court system Overview

    Overview of the EU Court systemThe present section is intended to give an overview on the EU judicial system that avoids the use of technical jargon. The lack of technical legal language in this section is therefore a deliberate choice, reflecting the limited objective of this section. For …

  • Damage claims

    Damage claims (article 268 TFEU) ("action en dommages et intérêts")The applicant requests the Court to find that it has suffered harm as a result of an illegal action of an EU institution and therefore asks the Court to award damages. In relation to DG Competition&#39…

  • EU Courts

    EU CourtsThe Court of Justice of the European Union is one of the EU institutions. It is based in Luxembourg. It is now composed of three different courts: the Court of Justice of the European Union ("Court of Justice" also known as the "ECJ") (this wording therefore ref…

  • Failure to act

    Failure to act (article 265 TFEU) ("recours en carence")By such an action, the applicant challenges an EU institution for not having adopted a decision. For DG Competition's activities, this may for instance be the case where a complainant considers that the Commission does no…

  • Action for annulment

    Action for annulment (article 263 TFEU) ("recours en annulation")This is by far the most frequent type of proceedings. In such a case, an applicant is asking the General Court to annul an act of the EU institutions (in general either because of a procedural irregularity or because…

  • Appeals

    Appeals (article 256 TFEU) ("pourvoi")Judgments of the General Court can in turn be appealed, in whole or in part, to the Court of Justice by the unsuccessful party, before the General Court. The Commission may therefore be the appellant if it has been unsuccessful before the Gene…