Amendments to the Rules of Procedure of the Court of First Instance

The Court of First Instance has adopted a new series of amendments to its Rules of Procedure.

Those amendments basically do two things:

- First, they provide for better involvement of the European Parliament in proceedings in which the validity of an act adopted by co-decision is at stake, and

- Second, they provide that the Court of First Instance may dispense with an oral hearing in intellectual property cases.

The amendments come into force on September 1st, 2008.