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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/eu-decision-1993-350/introduction",
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  "legislation": "eudn/1993/350",
  "legislation_title": "Council Decision of 8 June 1993 amending Council Decision 88/591/ECSC, EEC, Euratom establishing a Court of First Instance of the European Communities (93/350/Euratom, ECSC, EEC)",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/eu-decision-1993-350",
  "path": "introduction",
  "kind": "introduction",
  "number": null,
  "heading": "Introductory text",
  "text": "Council Decision\nof 8 June 1993\namending Council Decision 88/591/ECSC, EEC, Euratom establishing a Court of First Instance of the European Communities\n(93/350/Euratom, ECSC, EEC)\nTHE COUNCIL OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES,\nHaving regard to the Treaty establishing the European Coal and Steel Community, and in particular Article 32d thereof,\nHaving regard to the Treaty establishing the European Economic Community, and in particular Article 168a thereof,\nHaving regard to the Treaty establishing the European Atomic Energy Community, and in particular Article 140a thereof,\nHaving regard to the Protocol on the Statute of the Court of Justice of the European Coal and Steel Community, signed in Paris on 18 April 1951,\nHaving regard to the request from the Court of Justice,\nHaving regard to the opinion of the Commission,\nHaving regard to the opinion of the European Parliament,\nWhereas the attachment to the Court of Justice of a Court of First Instance by Decision 88/591/ECSC, EEC, Euratom is intended, by the establishment of a second court, in particular in respect of actions requiring close examination of complex facts, to improve the judicial protection of individual interests and to maintain the quality and effectiveness of judicial review in the Community legal order by enabling the Court of Justice to concentrate its activities on its fundamental task, of ensuring uniform interpretation of Community law;\nWhereas, with the same end in view, it is appropriate, taking into account past experience to enlarge the jurisdiction transferred to the Court of First Instance to hear and determine at first instance certain classes of action or proceeding brought by natural or legal persons;\nWhereas Decision 88/591/ECSC, EEC, Euratom should therefore be amended in consequence,\nHAS DECIDED AS FOLLOWS:",
  "extent": "E+W+S+N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "OJ No C 241, 21. 9. 1992, p. 1."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f2",
      "text": "OJ No L 319, 25. 11. 1988, p. 1. Corrected version published in OJ No C 215, 21. 8. 1989, p. 1."
    }
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  "licence": "Open Government Licence v3.0",
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  "attribution": "Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: legislation.gov.uk, The National Archives."
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