e-Curia

e-Curia is an application of the Court of Justice of the European Union that allows representatives of the parties in cases brought before the Court of Justice and the General Court, as well as national courts in the framework of a petition to Preliminary decision submitted to the Court of Justice, exchange procedural documents with the Secretariats exclusively electronically.

Decision of the Court of Justice of October 16, 2018 on the presentation and notification of procedural documents through the e-Curia application

Decision of the General Court of July 11, 2018 on the presentation and notification of procedural documents through the e-Curia application

Conditions of use of the e-Curia application

User manual

Request to open an account

In order to use the e-Curia service, a request to open an account must be submitted through one of the access request forms.

The procedure for opening an account varies depending on whether the user follows the normal procedure or the specific procedure.

The normal procedure allows you to open an account to file procedural documents with the Court of Justice or the General Court and receive them from them. It can be used by the representatives of the parties ("representatives" account) or, in the framework of a request for a preliminary ruling before the Court of Justice, by those acting on behalf of the courts of the Member States ("courts ") Or those who, not having the capacity of agent or lawyer, are authorized by virtue of the national procedural rules to represent a party before the courts of their State (" authorized person "account). The processing of this request takes several days and you will be informed by email of its result.

The specific procedure is designed for emergency situations and allows obtaining the provisional opening of an account in order to present procedural documents exclusively before the General Court.

The use of the e-Curia application is free.

The use of the e-Curia application is mandatory before the General Court.

Summary table of the accounts that allow the filing of procedural documents before a court of the Court of Justice of the European Union according to the normal procedure or the specific procedure

Presentation of procedural documents

The procedural documents must be submitted in PDF format. The submitted files may not exceed 30 MB. The documents submitted do not need to be hand signed. The user can simply create the PDF document from their word processing program. If necessary, you can also attach annexes and / or additional documents to your procedural document. Once the documents to be sent have been validated, the application records their presentation and sends the user a confirmation email. Therefore, it is not necessary to mail the original document or certified copies.

Receive notifications

When the Secretariat notifies a procedural letter through e-Curia, the recipient receives an email advising him and can consult the notification in e-Curia. Once the notification is consulted, the Secretariat is informed. Otherwise, notifications will be presumed received within 7 days of sending the notification email.

Consult the chronological list of documents presented and notifications

The user can consult at any time the chronological list of the notifications received and that of the documents presented by him. A search form allows you to select from received notifications and from submitted documents.

Management of personal data and appointment of assistants

The user can modify his password, his email address or the language corresponding to his profile. In case of forgetting the username or password, there is a procedure to recover them. The representatives of the parties and those who act on behalf of a judicial body may also designate one or more assistants authorized to receive the procedural documents transmitted by the Secretariats. These assistants can also prepare the presentation of a document, which must then be validated by the representative or the person acting on behalf of a court.