ECLI
European e-Justice portal
The European e-Justice portal aims to be the one-stop-shop for legal information and online cross border procedures within the EU. Based on the e-Justice Action Plans of the Council of the EU, it is maintained by the European Commission and the Member States.
Within is the ECLI framework the European e-Justice portal has two functions.
First, on the ECLI webpage it displays, in all official languages of the EU, general information on ECLI, and more specifically on the way it has been implemented within various Member States.
Secondly, the ECLI Search Engine is part of the European e-Justice Portal. With this search engine one can search all judicial decisions from whatever country or court and from whatever data provider, as long as they have an ECLI assigned and are connected to the Search Engine. The ECLI Search Engine went live on 4 May 2016.
It currently contains more than 5.000.000 decisions:
- Court of Justice of the European Union: all decisions;
- Board of Appeal of the European Patent Office: all decisions;
- France: decisions of the Consitutional Court, Supreme Court, Council of State and ‘Tribunal des conflits’.
- Spain: all decisions published on the website of the Spanish Council for the Judiciary;
- The Netherlands: all decisions published on the website of the Dutch Council for the Judiciary;
- Slovenia: all decisions published on the websites of the Supreme Court, the Courts of Appeal and the Administrative Court;
- Germany: decisions of the High Administrative Court and the Federal Constitutional Court;
- Czech Republic: decisions published on the website of the Supreme Court (also from other courts);
- Finland: decisions which are republished in the JuriFast database of ACA-Europe;
- Italy: decisions of the Constitutional Court and the Supreme Court;
- Greece: decisions of the Hellenic Council of State;
- Croatia: selected decisions of the Supreme Court, the High Commercial Court, the High Administrative Court and the High Misdemeanour Court.
Association of Councils of State and Supreme Administrative Jurisdictions of the European Union (ACA-Europe): all decisions from the courts mentioned above having an ECLI and being registered in their JuriFast database.