1. Court of Justice of the European Communities
Researching case-law of the Court of Justice
of the
European Communities
Zagreb, 27th October 2008

2. Researching case-law of the Court of Justice of the European Communities
Two principal on-line resources:

3. CURIA
Advantages:
Opinions of the Advocates General are available on this site the day of delivery at the hearing; Judgments the day of delivery; Orders after notification to the parties
Multilingual versions:
- all the official languages for decisions published in full length in the European Court Reports
- language of the case and working language (French), if different, for the decisions about which there is only Information in the ECR
- Summaries and Information in all languages
Diffusion, in the language of the case and in French (working language), if different, for decisions not published in the ECR

4. CURIA Limitations: Limited number of metadata and search criteria
Search by:
- Courts (Court of justice, Court of First Instance or Civil Service Tribunal)
- Type of document (Judgments, Orders, Opinions, Opinions of the Court, Summaries, Information, Notices in the OJ)
- Case number
- Date
- Names of parties
- Field
- Words in the text
Direct access to case-law from 17 June 1997 and a numerical access to all cases from 1953 (through the EUR-Lex link)

5. EUR-Lex
Advantages:
Case-law published in the European Court Reports since 1953
Multilingual versions with bilingual display option
Full bibliographic notices
Other than case-law, access to treaties, legislation, preparatory acts (PreLex) and Parliamentary questions
Many search options

6. EUR-Lex Advantages (continued): Search by: - Case number
- CELEX number
- Date of delivery
- Courts (Court of Justice, Court of First Instance or Civil Service Tribunal)
- Type of document (Judgment, Order, Court’s opinion, Advocate General’s opinion)
- Type of procedure
- Words in title and/or text
- Subject matter
- Digest of case-law relating to Community law
- Publication reference in the European Court Reports
- Publication reference in the Official Journal

7. EUR-Lex
Limitations:
Diffusion of decisions followed by metadata and the bibliographic notice only the week after the date of delivery
Diffusion of Opinions followed by metadata and the bibliographic notice only the week after the date of the judgment
Numerous documents are missing (but this is being corrected)
Decisions not published in the European Court Reports are unavailable

8. Case-law of the Court of Justice: other on-line resources
Digest of Community case-law (systematic collection of the Summaries)
Alphabetical Table of Subject-matter
Annotation of judgments
Annual Report
Juris Vista (historic case-law)
Judicial proceedings diary (information relating to pending cases)

9. National decisions concerning Community law: on-line resources
DEC-NAT - Decisions of national courts
"Lugano Package": Information pursuant to Protocol 2 annexed to the Lugano Convention - Recent case-law relating to the Brussels and Lugano Conventions on Jurisdiction and the Enforcement of Judgments in Civil and Commercial Matters
Synthesis of the principal decisions of national courts and tribunals (extracted from the Annual Report of the European Commission on the monitoring of the application of Community law)
"Reflets" bulletin: Quick information on legal developments of Community interest