CELEX – Judgment Field (grounds)
The Judgment field in the CELEX database on Justis is part of the Reports group, and contains the grounds for the decision of the court, laid out in numbered paragraphs. For example:
| Judgment | 23 Second, it is necessary to examine whether a scheme such as that established by the national rules at issue in the main proceedings is compatible with the principle set out in Article 40(3) of the EC Treaty (now, after amendment, Article 34(2) EC) prohibiting all discrimination between Community producers. According to settled case-law of the Court, that principle requires that comparable situations must not be treated differently and that different situations must not be treated in the same way unless such treatment is objectively justified (see Case C-354/95 The Queen v Minister for Agriculture, Fisheries and Food, ex parte NFU and Others [1997] ECR I-4559, paragraph 61). 24 According to Article 15b(8) of Regulation No 1035/72, the possibility for a Member State to decide that non-member producers are to be liable to a producers' organisation or an association of producers' organisations for all or part of the membership fees paid by the producer members relates only to the membership fees intended to cover certain costs, namely administrative costs resulting from the extension of the rules adopted by that organisation or association and those resulting from research, market research and sales promotion measures undertaken by the organisation or association. |
The CELEX document numbers of quoted Directives, Regulations, Treaties and case reports, and the paragraph number of the grounds in which they are cited, are listed in the Juridical Citations field.
In the Outline, this field is called “Judgment”.
In documents, this field can have various headings, for example “Background to the dispute”, “Facts”, “Judgment”, “Legal Context” or “Legal background to the proceedings”, or it may not have a heading.
If you want to use the Judgment field on the Quick Search screen or in the Full Text box on the Search In EU screen, its name is “grounds”, and you can use a search such as:
grounds[plant*]
Used only in the Case Law database (Sector 6).
If you would like to see the full text of a cited Treaty article, Directive, Regulation or case report:
- select the reference (e.g. Regulation No 1035/72, or Case C-354/95) with your mouse;
- click “J-Link” in the Document Actions panel.
cxe-fields-grounds.html; last updated 24th November 2006
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