The Swedish Presidency of the Council of the European Union has left unchanged the six areas in which the EU General Court may in future be asked for preliminary rulings, in the compromise proposal on an unprecedented reform of the Statute of the Court of Justice of the European Union that it submitted to the Member States at the end of April.
The six areas in which a reference to the General Court for a preliminary ruling could be made are: the common system of value added tax (VAT), excise...