CELEX – Advocate General’s Opinion Field (opinion)

The Advocate General’s Opinion field in the CELEX database on Justis is part of the General group, and contains the text of the opinions of the Advocates-General before the Court of Justice or the Court of First Instance, laid out in numbered paragraphs. For example:

Advocate Generals Opinion

14 Rules concerning trade marks clearly have a significant effect on trade and it is not surprising that there have been moves to reach some degree of international agreement in the field. Among the most important have been the Paris Convention for the Protection of Industrial Property ('the Paris Convention') (1) and the Agreement on Trade-Related Aspects of Intellectual Property Rights (1994, 'the TRIPs Agreement'), (2) to both of which I shall refer.

5 It is even more clearly desirable that uniformity should prevail within any common or single market such as the Community. Following harmonisation of the laws of the Member States by the Trade Marks Directive in 1989, (3) the further and more far-reaching step of establishing a Community trade mark, in addition to the existing national trade marks, was taken by Regulation No 40/94 ('the Trade Mark Regulation'). (4)

The CELEX document numbers of quoted Acts, and the paragraph numbers in which they are cited, are listed in the Juridical Citations field.

In the Outline, this field is called “Opinion”.

In documents, this field is shown as “Advocate Generals Opinion”.

If you want to use the Advocate General’s Opinion field on the Quick Search screen or in the Full Text box on the Search In EU screen, its name is “opinion”, and you can use a search such as:

opinion[trade mark*]

Used only in the Case Law database (Sector 6).

To see the one of the referenced documents:

select a document reference (for example Trade Marks Directive or Regulation No 40/94) by dragging slowly over it with your mouse;
click “J-Link” in the Document Actions panel.

Using J-Link to display another document

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