The Gazette 1989

GAZETTE

JANUARY 1989

the text of the judgment of the European Court in the procedural language. Since 1988 they include an 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-

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

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, is available from the Government Publications Sales Office. The Digest of Case Law relating to the European Communities, D series, indexes and digests cases on the interpretation of the Contd. on page 31.

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