Traduction de «première instance » (Français → Anglais) :

A full retrial would reduce the value of the first instance proceedings before the Community Patent Court and risk carrying the trial into the appeal instance before the Court of First Instance which would then risk that it would not be able to properly fulfil its function as an appeal instance, namely to concentrate on specific issues singled out by the parties for more detailed review at a higher level.

Chapter II contains amendments to the Statute of the Court of Justice with respect to the function of the Court of First Instance as Community Patent Appeal Court providing in particular for a specialised patent appeal chamber within the Court of First Instance and special provisions governing the procedure before it.

Within this overall project, the objective of the present proposal is to establish a Community Patent Court for first instance Community patent litigation and to provide for the necessary provisions with a view to accommodating the new function of the Court of First Instance as appeal instance against decisions of the Community Patent Court.

Unlike in Article 61 of the Statute, which addresses the appeal against decisions of the Court of First Instance to the Court of Justice on points of law stating that the Court of Justice may give final judgment where the state of proceedings so permits or otherwise refer the case back to the Court of First Instance, the present Article states the rule that the Court of First Instance in patent appeal proceedings shall decide the case.

(9) In order to take account of the special nature of private-party Community patent litigation and to ensure a uniform procedure at both instances, amendments to the procedural rules contained in the Protocol on the Statute of the Court of Justice are necessary, both for the procedure at first instance before the Community Patent Court and on appeal before the Court of First Instance.

Whereas under Council Decision 88/591/ECSC, EEC, Euratom of 24 October 1988 establishing a Court of First Instance of the European Communities (4), as amended by Decision 93/350/Euratom, ECSC, EEC of 8 June 1993 (5), that Court shall exercise at the first instance the jurisdiction conferred on the Court of Justice by the Treaties establishing the Communities - with particular regard to appeals lodged under the second subparagraph of Article 173 of the EC Treaty - and by the acts adopted in implementation thereof, save as otherwise provided in an act setting up a body governed by Community law; whereas the jurisdiction which this Regulat ...[+++]ion confers on the Court of Justice to cancel and reform decisions of the appeal courts shall accordingly be exercised at the first instance by the Court in accordance with the above Decision;