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Publishers Abstract:
This article is divided into four sections. Section 2 describes the general features of the accelerated and expedited procedures before the EC courts, building inter alia on recent judicial practice and on recent amendments to the CFI's Rules of Procedure. Section 3 analyses how the EC courts have been using the accelerated and expedited procedures in practice. The first section shows that they are efficient tools which, however, have thus far been used on an exceptional basis and in a few fields of law only. Also it analyses the interplay of the expedited procedures and interim relief. Finally, Section 4 briefly concludes that more promising and egalitarian avenues should increase the EC courts' ability to deliver their judgments swiftly on a large scale. The accelerated and the expedited procedures have proved very efficient. In exceptional cases, they strike a very good balance between the need for a swift decision and the protection of the litigants' rights.
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