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This article deals with the issues concerning the communication between the national courts of the European Union Member States and the Court of Justice of the European Union via the preliminary ruling procedure. The doctrines of acte clair and acte éclairé are described briefly in the article. The authors explicitly investigate the national court’s right to apply to the Court of Justice of the European Union and the obligation to apply to the Court of Justice of the European Union for a preliminary ruling. The recent tendencies in the jurisprudence of the national courts of the Republic of Lithuania while applying for preliminary rulings are revealed.

Conditions and Circumstances which Lead to Application to the Court of Justice of the European Union and Adoption of a Preliminary Ruling

Baltic Journal of Law & Politics

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This article deals with the issues concerning the communication between the national courts of the European Union Member States and the Court of Justice of the...

Conditions and Circumstances which Lead to Application to the Court of Justice of the European Union and Adoption of a Preliminary Ruling

Published Online: Mar 04, 2017

Page range: 130 - 149

Received: Aug 26, 2016

Accepted: Dec 22, 2016

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1515/bjlp-2016-0015

Keywords
Court of Justice of the European Union, CJEU, preliminary ruling, preliminary ruling procedure, right to apply to the CJEU, obligation to apply to the CJEU

© 2016 Albertas Milinis et al., published by De Gruyter Open

This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 3.0 License.

Conditions and Circumstances which Lead to Application to the Court of Justice of the European Union and Adoption of a Preliminary Ruling

Published Online: Mar 04, 2017

Page range: 130 - 149

Received: Aug 26, 2016

Accepted: Dec 22, 2016

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1515/bjlp-2016-0015

KeywordsCourt of Justice of the European Union, CJEU, preliminary ruling, preliminary ruling procedure, right to apply to the CJEU, obligation to apply to the CJEU

© 2016 Albertas Milinis et al., published by De Gruyter Open

This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 3.0 License.

Keywords
Court of Justice of the European Union, CJEU, preliminary ruling, preliminary ruling procedure, right to apply to the CJEU, obligation to apply to the CJEU