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II. Comprehension

1. Answer the following questions using the information from the text:

1. What is the difference between a decision and an opinion of the ECJ?

2. What is the jurisdiction of the CFI?

3. What does it mean “to manage properly” financial affairs?

4. What types of cases are heard in the ECHR?

5. Why are relations between the European and national courts complex?

2. Complete the following sentences using information from the text:

1. 27 judges and 8 Advocates-General …

2. … checks the financial affairs of the EU.

3. Staff cases are decided …

4. The judges of the ECHR …

5. The decisions of the … are binding.

6. Courts with international jurisdiction …

3. Find in the text synonyms to the following words and make up your own sentences:

Violation, obligatory, legality, legal.

III. VOCABULARY STUDY

1. Match the terms with their definitions and make up your own sentences with these words:

1 Advocate-General

a) legal force, lawfulness

2 mandate

b) the breach of law

3 infringement

c) a means of judicial defence

4 petition

d) the power that is officially given to a person or a group of persons to do sth

5 remedy

e) an official letter to a law court asking for a legal case to be considered

6 validity

f) a senior law officer who assists the ECJ in its task of reaching a judgment in the cases brought before the court

2. Complete the sentences with the words given below:

(validity, opinion, infringement, mandate, petition, case, remedies, Advocates-General, judges)

1. … are characterized by their independence and impartiality. Following the hearing of the … they deliver in open court an … that is not binding on the … but which reflects the views of someone with the same standing as a judge.

2. The union leaders had a … from their members to call a strike.

3. They wanted me to sign their … .

4. Courts have different types of … at their disposal.

5. The … of this document is in question.

6. Cases on the … of human rights are heard in the ECHR.

3. Make up sentences with the following words and phrases:

To interpret, binding, to be subject to, to manage, to try remedies, direct litigation, petition.

4. Fill in the table with the words and phrases from the text.

Names of courts

Jurisdiction

Judges

5. Translate the following into Ukrainian.

The European Court of Justice consists of 27 judges appointed by the member states by mutual agreement and assisted by 8 Advocates-General. Proceedings before the Court involve written and oral submission by the parties concerned. Proceedings against the Commission or the Council may be brought by the other of these two bodies, by any member state, or by individual persons; proceedings to challenge the validity of legislative or other action by either Commission or Council are known as proceedings for annulment. Proceedings against a member state may be brought by the Commission, the Council, or any other member state. Appeals from the Court of First Instance go to the ECJ. The decisions of the Court are binding and there is no appeal against them.

The Court also has power, at the request of a court of any member state, to give a preliminary ruling on any point of Community law on which that court requires clarification.

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