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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/eu-decision-2006-955/introduction",
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  "legislation": "eudn/2006/955",
  "legislation_title": "Decision of the Council of 18 December 2006 amending the Rules of Procedure of the Court of Justice of the European Communities as regards the language arrangements (2006/955/EC, Euratom)",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/eu-decision-2006-955",
  "path": "introduction",
  "kind": "introduction",
  "number": null,
  "heading": "Introductory text",
  "text": "Decision of the Council\nof 18 December 2006\namending the Rules of Procedure of the Court of Justice of the European Communities as regards the language arrangements\n(2006/955/EC, Euratom)\nTHE COUNCIL OF THE EUROPEAN UNION,\nHaving regard to Article 64 of the Statute of the Court of Justice,\nIn accordance with the procedure referred to in the second paragraph of Article 245 of the Treaty establishing the European Community and the second paragraph of Article 160 of the Treaty establishing the European Atomic Energy Community,\nHaving regard to the request of the Court of Justice,\nHaving regard to the opinion of the Commission of 12 December 2006,\nHaving regard to the Opinion of the European Parliament of 13 December 2006,\nWhereas with the accession of the Republic of Bulgaria and Romania, Bulgarian and Romanian will become official languages of the European Union and whereas those languages should be included in those listed in the Rules of Procedure as the languages of a case,\nHAS DECIDED AS FOLLOWS:",
  "extent": "E+W+S+N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/eudn/2006/955/introduction",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-11-01T15:17:20.692620+00:00"
  },
  "licence": "Open Government Licence v3.0",
  "licence_url": "https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/version/3/",
  "attribution": "Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: legislation.gov.uk, The National Archives."
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