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22.6.2011 Official
Journal
of
the
European
Union L
162/19
AMENDMENTS TO THE RULES OF PROCEDURE OF THE EUROPEAN UNION CIVIL SERVICE
TRIBUNAL
THE EUROPEAN UNION CIVIL SERVICE TRIBUNAL,
p. 1, with corrigendum OJ L 69 of 13 March 2008, p. 37) ( 1 )
are hereby amended as follows:
Having regard to the Treaty on the Functioning of the European
Union, and in particular the fifth paragraph of Article 257
thereof,
1. In the first sentence of Article 99(2), the words ‘or where the
document to be served is a judgment or an order’ shall be
deleted.
Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European Atomic
Energy Community, and in particular Article 106a(1) thereof,
2. A third paragraph shall be added to Article 99, worded as
Having regard to Article 7(1) of Annex I to the Protocol on the
follows:
Statute of the Court of Justice of the European Union,
‘The Tribunal may by decision determine the criteria for a
Having regard to the agreement of the Court of Justice,
procedural document to be served by electronic means. That
decision shall be published in the Official Journal of the
Whereas certain provisions of the Rules of Procedure should be
European Union.’
amended to allow the lodging and service of procedural
documents by electronic means, without the need for those
procedural steps to be confirmed by post or by the physical
Article 2
delivery of such documents,
These amendments to the Rules of Procedure, which are
authentic in the languages referred to in Article 35(1) of the
With the Council’s approval given on 13 May 2011,
Rules of Procedure of the General Court of the European Union,
applicable to the Civil Service Tribunal by virtue of Article 7(2)
of Annex I to the Protocol on the Statute of the Court of
HAS ADOPTED THE FOLLOWING AMENDMENTS TO ITS RULES OF
Justice, shall be published in the Official Journal of the European
PROCEDURE:
Union and shall enter into force on the first day of the month
following that of their publication.
Article 1
The Rules of Procedure of the European Union Civil Service
Tribunal of 25 July 2007 (OJ L 225 of 29 August 2007,
Luxembourg, 18 May 2011.
( 1 ) Amended on 14 January 2009 (OJ L 24 of 28 January 2009, p. 10)
and 17 March 2010 (OJ L 92 of 13 April 2010, p. 17).

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