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The Architecture of the Transfer of the Preliminary Reference to the Court as A Stage of Judicial Integration of the European Union

Dimitris Liakopoulos

CEIJ, New York 10001, USA.

*Corresponding author: Dimitris Liakopoulos

Published: November 11,2025

Abstract

The present paper aims to investigate the negotiations, the practice, and the near future of the preliminary jurisdiction of the Court of Justice of the European Union to the Court by reaching the agreement published in the official journal and became operational from 1st September 2024. The work has been long for the institutions but not with many problems, perhaps because not all the issues in this regard are examined. A reform of the statute of the court is certainly important for the elements of a new discipline, that evaluates the precise impact of a continuous dialogue, that has been going on since the past between national and Kirchenberg judges. The future of the judicial system follows an important stage, therefore, that we are based on primary sources, on the jurisprudential practice as well as on some personal statements and perspectives that have to do with the future of this judicial path, that has not yet found a healthy effective path to solve all the related problems in this regard and especially of the preliminary reference.

Keywords

Judicial reform; European Union law; primary law; European case law; prelimi-nary ruling; dialogue between national and Kirchenberg judges; publication of ju-dicial documents; European institutions and reform; integration of Union law

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How to cite this paper

The Architecture of the Transfer of the Preliminary Reference to the Court as A Stage of Judicial Integration of the European Union

How to cite this paper: Dimitris Liakopoulos. (2025). The Architecture of the Transfer of the Preliminary Reference to the Court as A Stage of Judicial Integration of the European Union. International Journal of Law and Social Justice1(1), 61-70.

DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.26855/ijlsj.2025.12.009