This document is an excerpt from the EUR-Lex website
Reports of cases
In this section, you can find the reports of cases published by the courts of the Court of Justice of the European Union (Court of Justice, the General Court and the former European Union Civil Service Tribunal). They consist of a set of judicial decisions, accompanied, if applicable, by the opinions of the Advocate General.
Before 1 September 2016, there were two types of report:
- Court Reports comprising the case-law of the Court of Justice and the General Court;
- Reports of staff cases comprising the civil service case-law of the General Court and the Civil Service Tribunal.
Since 1 September 2016, all the case-law has been published in the Court Reports.
The reports are published in all the EU’s official languages. An asterisk indicates the language of the case.
Since 1 January 2010, the Reports of staff cases have been published in digital form only. Since 1 January 2012,
this has also been the case for the Court Reports. The official versions of the cases published in these reports are
available in PDF and are identified by a specific symbol 
The HTML versions are for consultation purposes.
Before the dates mentioned above, only the paper versions of these reports were official. The electronic versions of the cases published in these reports are available on EUR-Lex with a reference to the publication in the title.
How to search in this section
You can search through the Court Reports and the Reports of staff cases that were published digitally using the search box below with three predefined criteria.
The reports of cases have been published since 1954. Their content has evolved over time and since 2004/2005 covers the following for each jurisdiction.
- For the Court of Justice, since 2004:
- judgments of the full Court and the Grand Chamber;
- judgments delivered in preliminary ruling proceedings by Chambers of five Judges and Chambers of three Judges;
- judgments delivered other than in preliminary ruling proceedings by Chambers of five Judges and Chambers of three Judges ruling with an Advocate General’s opinion; and
- opinions delivered under Article 218(11) TFEU.
- For the General Court, since September 2005, unless decided otherwise by the formation of the court concerned:
- judgments of the Grand Chamber;
- judgments of Chambers of five Judges.
- For the Civil Services Tribunal, before 1 September 2016:
- all decisions, in summary form or in full text (see below).
On EUR-Lex, you can find the text and the related metadata of the decisions published in the Court Reports (Court of Justice and General Court) in all the EU’s official languages.
However, the different linguistic versions and formats do not become available simultaneously.
- First, EUR-Lex publishes the HTML versions in both the language of the case and that of the deliberation, generally on the day of the judgment.
- The PDF versions in these two languages are published one day later or shortly after.
- All the other languages follow as soon as they become available.
For the Reports of staff cases, EUR-Lex gives access to a summary of the decision in all the EU’s official languages, and to the full text of the decision in both the language of the case and that of the deliberation. For the decisions of general interest, the full text is available in all the EU’s official languages.
You can also access the reports of cases on the Curia website, the official website of the Court of Justice of the European Union. Click below to access directly the reports of cases by type of court.
- Court Reports — Court of Justice
- Court Reports — General Court
- Staff Cases — General Court
- Staff Cases — Civil Service Tribunal
For the decisions not published in the report of cases, EUR-Lex gives access:
- concerning the Court of Justice, to the text of the decision in both the language of the procedure and that of the deliberation and to the related metadata in all the EU’s official languages;
- concerning the General Court, to the metadata related to the decisions in all the EU’s official languages, with the texts of these decisions available on the Curia website ; see ‘Case-law' section.