Original scientific paper
The New Urgent Preliminary Ruling Procedure (Procédure préliminaire d’urgence) in the Area of Freedom, Security and Justice
Tunjica Petrašević
orcid.org/0000-0001-6022-7600
; assistant at the Chair of Constitutional Lawand Political Science, Faculty of Law, University Josip Juraj Strosmayer, Osijek, Croatia
Abstract
The paper deals with the new urgent preliminary procedure (PPU – after French procédure préliminaire d’urgence). It is a new sub-type of preliminary ruling procedure applied only in the area of freedom, security, and justice. Although the PPU came into force on 1 March 2008, it has already become part of the case law of the European Court of Justice. The PPU is governed by Article 23a of the Statute and Article 104b of the Rules of Procedure of the Court of Justice. The author discusses the reasons for introducing the PPU, compares it with the regular preliminary ruling procedure and stresses the most important differences between the two procedures. The paper is concluded with an analysis of potential problems in the enforcement of the PPU and with a suggestion for solving the problem of length of the preliminary ruling procedure.
Keywords
Court of Justice of the European Union; preliminary ruling procedure; area of freedom; security and justice; new urgent preliminary ruling procedure (PPU); Treaty of Lisbon
Hrčak ID:
135436
URI
Publication date:
7.6.2010.
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