![]() Whether by way of a preliminary ruling, direct action or appeal, the cases brought before the Court in 2022 once again covered an extremely wide range of matters. Among the actions for failure to fulfil obligations brought in 2022, particular mention should be made of the first action brought against a third State – the United Kingdom – on the basis of Article 87(1) of the Agreement on the Withdrawal of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland from the European Union and the European Atomic Energy Community. ![]() In the light of those figures, the share taken by direct actions in the cases brought in 2022 (4.60%) appears relatively small, even though the number of such actions (37) increased slightly last year compared with the previous year, when they had reached an all-time low (with only 29 new cases). That decrease concerns both requests for a preliminary rulings and appeals brought against decisions of the General Court, but it is limited in scope and, above all, does not fundamentally affect the breakdown of litigation by type of case, since references for preliminary rulings and appeals alone still account for more than 90% of all cases brought before the Court of Justice (with, respectively, 546 new requests for a preliminary ruling and 209 appeals, all categories taken together, that percentage even amounted to 93% in 2022). Cases broughtĪs already mentioned, the number of cases brought before the Court of Justice in 2022 ( 806 cases) was slightly down on the previous year, when 838 new cases were registered by the Registry. It is in that context that a legislative request was made by the Court on 30 November 2022 to extend the material scope of the mechanism to determine whether an appeal should be allowed and to effect a partial transfer of the preliminary ruling jurisdiction of the Court of Justice to the General Court in order to enable the latter to rule on questions referred by the national courts under Article 267 TFEU in specific matters determined by the Statute. This article looks at the subject matter, origin and nature of the cases brought before the Court in 2022 and provides some guidance on the data relating to the cases closed by the Court.Īlthough the past year ended on a somewhat positive note in that respect, with the number of cases closed exceeding the number of cases brought, with a slight decrease compared with the previous year, it was also marked by an increase in the average time taken to deal with preliminary ruling cases, which raise increasingly complex and sometimes very sensitive issues. This contribution, which was previously included in the body of the Annual Report of the Court of Justice of the European Union – Judicial Activity, is intended, as it is every year, to provide a brief overview of the main trends that emerge from a reading of the judicial statistics for the past year. ![]() See detailed statistics for the Court of Justice A brief overview of the main statistical trends over the past yearīy Marc-André Gaudissart Deputy Registrar of the Court of Justice ![]()
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