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The Court of Justice website is now sporting two search forms. Following a recent makeover, the site has a new-style form on the home page, with the old-style form accessed via the ‘Case law’ section. This is somewhat confusing, as the old form offers more search options and new site visitors might miss it. Note that the ECJ site is warning of potential problems with the publication of recent case-law during September.
Your Guide to the Lisbon Treaty
With less than a month to go before Ireland votes again
on the Treaty of Lisbon, the Commisison has published a new booklet on the Treaty, setting out -
amongst other things - what it sees as the key provisions, details of the institutional changes, and
definitions of selected terms.
Visit the website to logon and send your AskEric question.
Enquires received during August included this: We are looking for the name and/or reference number of a Commission rule on conflict of interest - such as when a Commissioner responsible for a specific issue leaves the Commission and becomes involved with the sector he/she was regulating. To which Eric answered:
The Commission has its own Rules of Procedure, dating back to 1962 but revised over 100 times since then. Article 16 concerns the conduct of officials after leaving the Commission, including taking jobs.
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