Article 38 UPCS

Questions referred to the Court of Justice of the European Union

1. The procedures established by the Court of Justice of the European Union for referrals for preliminary rulings within the European Union shall apply.

2. Whenever the Court of First Instance or the Court of Appeal has decided to refer to the Court of Justice of the European Union a question of interpretation of the Treaty on European Union or of the Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union or a question on the validity or interpretation of acts of the institutions of the European Union, it shall stay its proceedings.

DISTRIBUTION OF CASES WITHIN THE CENTRAL DIVISION¹

| LONDON Section | PARIS Seat | MUNICH Section | |: ---- :|: ---- :|: ---- :| | - (A) Human necessities | President’s Office | - (F) Mechanical engineering, lighting, heating, weapons, blasting | | - (C) Chemistry, metallurgy | (B) Performing operations, transporting | | | | (D) Textiles, paper | | | | (E) Fixed constructions | | | | (G) Physics | | | | (H) Electricity | |

Footnotes

1. The classification into 8 sections (A to H) is based on the International Patent Classification of the World Intellectual Pro perty Organisation (http://www.wipo.int/classifications/ipc/en). ↩