European Case Law Identifier

The European Case Law Identifier (ECLI, dt . : European case law identifier) ​​is a classification system and a standardized identification option (standard identifier) ​​for decisions of the courts of the member states of the European Union , the Court of Justice of the European Union , the European Patent Office and all other interested states and international organizations . The legal basis is the Council conclusions with a call for the introduction of the European Case Law Identifier (ECLI) and a minimum set of uniform metadata for case law (2011 / C 127/01) of April 29, 2011. The ECLI project itself was launched on April 27, 2011 Launched October 2011.

The unmistakable identification is made by the fact that the code (standard identifier) ​​consists of five parts separated by a colon , which are only assigned once in their combination.

The introduction of the ECLI is not intended to create a database at European level. The ECLI is part of the " E-Justice " system - see also the European Justice Portal .

The concept is similar to the "neutral citation" known from the Anglo-American area (see case citation in the English Wikipedia), depending on the formation of the fifth ECLI element more (e.g. Netherlands) or less (e.g. Germany).

Conception

The ECLI as an identifier was designed against the background of the Functional Requirements for Bibliographic Records (FRBR). The FRBR distinguishes ten different entities that can be the subject of bibliographic cataloging. In group 1, these entities will be between the work ( work expression () expression ), manifestation ( manifestation ) and copy ( item ) distinguished. In relation to a court decision, the work level (first level) describes the decision itself in an abstract sense. This decision can be available in different versions (“expressions” - e.g. and abbreviated or abbreviated, anonymized or not anonymized, in the original language or in a translation - second level). The respective "expression" of the decision can be manifested in various ways (third level), for example as a paper copy signed in the original by the judge, as a PDF file, as a graphic or as a print in a specialist journal. The specific copies of the manifestation, for example a specific file or a specific volume of a decision collection, are ultimately on the fourth level.

Within this level, the ECLI should identify the respective decision at the highest, the plant level. It should therefore characterize the decision itself, not a certain language variant or media form.

Structure and use

ECLI

The structure of the ECLI is uniform and may not be changed, shortened or extended by the EU member states or the users without authorization:

ECLI:[Ländercode ]:[Gerichtscode ]:[Jahr der Entscheidung]:[einmalige Kennung] .

Example: ECLI : NL : HR : 1919 : AG1776 = Decision of the Supreme Court (HR) of the Netherlands (NL) from 1919 with the identification of the Union Member State for this judgment AG1776.

The fifth element, unique identifier , is mentioned in the Council Conclusions (2011 / C 127/01) ordinal number, but letters are also permitted there (Appendix § 1 No. 5); Existing national identification systems for court decisions should be integrated as far as possible into the ECLI (Annex § 3.1 No. 3). There are basically two variants to be distinguished:

1. Assignment of a consecutive number (e.g. EU , ES , FI , HR , MT , NL , SK )
2. Formation based on the file number (e.g. BG , CZ , EE , PT , SI ), possibly also the decision date (e.g. CE , EP , DE , EL , LV ).

The advantage of a consecutive ordinal number, as it is also common in the Anglo-American "neutral citation", lies in its brevity and thus easier handling for the user. The advantage of using file numbers as a basis for a non-existent system of consecutive numbering lies in the lower administrative effort on the part of the provider and the associated easier extension to the past (although, of course, because of the possibility that several decisions by the same court and type of decision are issued on the same day under the same file number A collision number is necessary to maintain the uniqueness).

Metadata

The classification system also contains a series of standardized metadata to improve or facilitate the search. The minimum standard was specified by the Council of the European Union .

1. Required metadata are:

• identifier (a URL under which this instance document or information about it can be found);
• isVersionOf (ECLI = standard identifier);
• creator (full name of the court. Name of chamber or department can be added);
• coverage (country in which the court is located, possibly also information for part of a (federal) state);
• date (date of the pronouncement of the judgment according to ISO 8601);
• language (language);
• publisher (organization responsible for publishing the document);
• accessRights ("public" or "private". Documents declared as "public" must be freely accessible at the specified Internet address);
• type (information on the type of decision, e.g. "court decision").

2. Supplementary metadata are or can be:

• title (title, preferably the name of the parties or an alias for them - in accordance with national data protection regulations);
• subject (legal area from which the decision originates, e.g. civil law , commercial law , family law , insolvency law , international private law , criminal law , EU law , administrative law , tax law , international law and constitutional law );
• abstract (brief summary of the case);
• description (key terms or catchwords for the decision);
• contributor (names of judges, advocate general, and other officers involved);
• issued (date of publication of this document);
• references (references to other documents, in the case of judgments and, if available, the ECLI, in the case of EU legal acts the CELEX number, references to national legal acts, judgments without an ECLI or scientific publication, the URL or other identification);
• isReplacedBy (if decisions are renumbered, the new ECLI is entered here).

Possible characters for the identifier

Only the Latin alphabet and Arabic numerals may be used to enter the data . Upper and lower case is permitted, provided that upper and lower case letters do not have different meanings in the corresponding electronic information system. It should preferably be written in capital letters.

administration

The Council of the European Union (Council of Ministers) is responsible for the changes and further development of ECLI. The European Commission is responsible for the ECLI website and ECLI search interface as well as for assigning the "country codes" used to the international organizations that want to use the system.

ECLI coordinator

Each Member State using the ECLI must designate a government or judicial body as a national ECLI coordinator. Each country can only have one ECLI coordinator. The ECLI coordinator for the EU is the Court of Justice.

Introduction in the Union Member States

The EU member states and all other states are free to introduce and use the ECLI.

If the ECLI is introduced in a member state of the Union, the following criteria must generally be applied (recommendations):

1. Member States should apply the ECLI to all decisions made by all their courts;
2. You should provide a minimum of metadata to all court decisions published on public websites.
3. You should appoint a national ECLI coordinator.
4. The EU Court of Justice should participate in the ECLI system.
5. The European Commission should set up the ECLI website as part of the e-Justice portal.
6. The European Commission and the Member States should work closely together to set up a network query for identifiers and metadata.
7. Member States and their courts should disseminate information on the ECLI, the ECLI website and the search interface through their national websites and publications, even if they have not yet implemented the ECLI.
8. Apart from the member states, the applicant countries and the Lugano states are also invited to use the ECLI system.
9. Member States should report annually to the Council on the progress made in implementing the ECLI and metadata for case law.

ECLI search engine

In May 2016, the ECLI interface provided for by Annex § 5 of the Conclusions started .

The following table contains the year the ECLI was introduced for each of the 21 participant areas, the rounded number of documents that can be found using the ECLI search engine, and the year of publication of the earliest of these documents (as of May 2020).

Area	introduction	Number of documents	from year
EU	2014	38,000	1954
CE	2015	-	-
EP	2013	37,700	1979
AT	2014	-	-
BE	2017	99,600	1958
BG	2018	2,091,700	2002
CZ	2012	120,400	1993
DE	2013	37,000	1951
EE	2017	293.200	1993
Tbsp	2016	74,800	1985
IT	2014	3,830,000	1852
FI	2016	100	2003
FR	2012	99,400	1958
MR	2017	181,900	1984
IT	2016	3,809,100	2006
LV	2017	70,300	2014
MT	2015	-	-
NL	2013	525,800	1849
PT	2017	248,500	1932
SI	2011	143,700	1992
SK	2012	-	-

Implementation of ECLI at the individual participants

According to the Council conclusions, Member States are free to choose to implement ECLI in their national systems. International organizations can also participate and apply for a "country code" from the European Commission. In addition to the courts of the EU, the Council of Europe ( ECHR ) and the Boards of Appeal of the European Patent Office, the ECLI will be available in Belgium, Bulgaria, Germany, Estonia, Finland, Croatia, Latvia, Malta, the Netherlands, Austria, Portugal, Spain, the mid-2020 Slovakia, Slovenia and the Czech Republic in use; at least for higher courts also in France, Greece and Italy. There is an elaboration for Romania, which - as far as can be seen - is not applied. Denmark, Ireland, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Poland, Sweden, Hungary, the United Kingdom and Cyprus, as well as Iceland, Norway and Switzerland are currently (2020) not participating.

In the examples below, the link under ECLI leads to the entry in the ECLI search engine, the link at the end leads to the relevant full-text database.

EU - European Union

The Court of Justice of the European Union is the ECLI coordinator for the EU. ECLI was introduced on March 24, 2014 for decisions of the General Court and Opinions of the assigned Advocate General . As with the case numbers, “C” stands for Cour de justice / ECJ , “T” for Tribunal / EuG and “F” for fonction publique / public service ( EuGöD , a former specialized court ).

• Example: ECLI : EU: C : 2005: 446

Citation by the ECJ

The European courts do not use the prefix “ECLI” when citing “in the interest of the most concise information possible”; Examples:

• Judgment of 12 July 2005, Schempp, C-403/03, EU: C : 2005: 446 , para. 19th
• Judgment of 6 June 2007, Walderdorff v Commission, T-442/04, not published, EU: T : 2007: 161

CE - Council of Europe

Format: ECLI: CE : ECHR : YYYY: MMDD abc123456789

• Example: ECLI: CE: ECHR: 1976: 0518DEC000682574 (Icelandic dog case)

DEC stands for Decision (decision on the admissibility), JUD for Judgment (judgment in the main matter). Opinions (as in case P16-2018-001) do not receive an ECLI.

EP - European Patent Organization

The European Patent Office introduced the ECLI retrospectively in 2013. The ECLI coordinator in the European Patent Office is the Publication Department.

Structure of the ECLI of the Patent Office:

• ECLI
• Country code: EP
• Court code: BA (BA = Boards of Appeal of the European Patent Office)
• Year of decision (format YYYY)
• Ordinal number consisting of:
  • Decision number (number of the case without a slash) consisting of 7 digits → 1 digit (type of decision) + 4 digits (ordinal number of the decision) + 2 digits (the last two digits of the year in which the complaint was received)
  • Codes for the EPO decision types:
    • D: Board of Appeal in Disciplinary Matters
    • G: Enlarged Board of Appeal
    • J: Legal Board of Appeal
    • T: Technical Boards of Appeal
    • W: Decisions on PCT contradictions
    • R: Decisions on requests for review
• Point
• Date of decision (format YYYYMMDD - in the example below May 3, 2002)

• Example: ECLI : EP : BA : 2002: D000300.20020503

AT - Austria

In Austria , the introduction to ECLI started in early 2014. The national ECLI coordinator in Austria is the Federal Ministry for Digitization and Business Location .

In the legal information system of the Republic of Austria , not only decision texts (TE), but also legal sentences (RS) derived from them contain ECL identifiers. Legal clauses are condensed compilations of the essential statements of a court decision (cf. guiding principle ).

In ordinary jurisdiction, each legal sentence of a court is given its own identifier, to which various decision texts can be assigned.

• Example: The legal sentence ECLI: AT: OGH0002 : 1983: RS0016914 is not only assigned the parent decision ECLI: AT: OGH0002: 1983: 0010OB00581.83.0413.000 , but also numerous other decisions (so-called "extra long RS"), including ECLI: AT: OGH0002: 2019: 0070OB00189.19Y.1216.000 with own addition (T77).

At the Higher Administrative Court, the same legal sentence is given different identifiers, each derived from the identifier for the decision text; reference is made to the basic legal principle (so-called GRS clause; GRS = same legal principle).

• Example: The decision text ECLI: AT: VWGH : 2020: RA2020020033.L00 became the legal sentence ECLI: AT: VWGH: 2020: RA2020020033. L01 derived; it contains the note "GRS as Ra 2016/04/0006 B February 17, 2016 RS 2" = ECLI: AT: VWGH: 2016: RA2016040006.L02 .

BE - Belgium

ECLI coordinator: Federal Public Service Justice (Federale Overheidsdienst Justitie, Service Public Fédéral Justice)

• Court codes

• Example: ECLI : BE : CASS : 2016: ARR.20160902.4

BG - Bulgaria

ECLI coordinator: Supreme Judicial Council (Висш Съдебен Съвет - ВСС)

• Example: ECLI : BG : DC530: 2017: 20160100630.001

CZ - Czech Republic

The Czech Republic started implementation in April 2012.

ECLI coordinator: Supreme Court (Nejvyšší soud)

• Example: ECLI : CZ: NS: 2012: 6.TDO.1416.2012.1
  • CZ country code (CZ for the Czech Republic);
  • NS is the abbreviation (code) of the court that made the decision (NS for the Supreme Court);
  • 2012 indicates the year in which the decision was made;
  • 6.TDO.1416.2012 is the national file number [spisová značka] - without spaces and slashes; these are replaced by points;
  • the last number (in the example "1") indicates the consecutive number of decisions under one and the same reference number. By specifying the serial number, it is ensured that the same ECLI number is not assigned to several decisions by a court in the same year.

DE - Germany

Germany began introducing the ECLI on September 23, 2013. The national ECLI coordinator in Germany is the Federal Legal Information System Competence Center (CC-RIS) at the Federal Office of Justice in Bonn .

• Example: ECLI : DE: BVerwG : 2002: 170402U9CN1.01.0

Construction:

• ECLI
• Country code "DE"
• Court code, e.g. B. "BVerwG"
• Year of decision, e.g. B. "2002"
• so-called ordinal number, consisting e.g. B. off
  • exact date of decision ( DDMMYY ), e.g. B. "170402" (= April 17th, 2002)
  • Abbreviation for the decision type, e.g. B. "U" for judgment or "B" for decision
  • File number, e.g. B. "9CN1.01"
  • Collision number in the event that several documents with the same decision type are available on the same day with the same file number, e.g. B. "0"

There are three variants of the fifth element (ordinal number) in Germany:

• BVerfG : Type of procedure Arbitration body YYYYMMDD (collision letter) . File number with four-digit entry number
  • Example: ECLI : DE: BVerfG: 2016: bs20160301c.2bvb000113
• Other federal courts: DDMMYY decision type file number . YY . single-digit collision number
  • Example: ECLI: DE: BGH : 2016: 150316B2STR487.15.2
• Courts of the countries: MMTT . File number . YY . two-digit collision number
  • Example: ECLI: DE: LGSTUTT : 2015: 0126.6KLS34JS2588.10.00

The ECLI is officially awarded at the BVerfG and BVerwG comprehensively, with the BSG from 2010, the BAG from 2015, the BGH and BFH from 2016 and the BPatG from 2017; also in the decision databases of the federal states of Berlin, Brandenburg, Hesse, Lower Saxony, North Rhine-Westphalia, Rhineland-Palatinate and Schleswig-Holstein. "0A" as a two-digit collision number indicates with automated allocation that the existence of further decisions from the same day was not checked.

Citation of the BVerwG

Examples:

• BVerwG, decision of February 19, 2013 - 6 P 7.12 ECLI : DE: BVerwG: 2013: 190213B6P7.12.0 - BVerwGE 146, 48 Rn. 14th
• ECJ , judgment of July 16, 1998 - C-298/96 ECLI : EU: C: 1998: 372 , Ölmühle - Rn. 23 f.
• ECHR , judgment of February 10, 2005 - No. 64387/01 [ECLI: CE: ECHR: 2005: 0210JUD006438701 ], Uhl / Germany - Rn. 27

EE - Estonia

In Estonia , the ECLI identifier has been added to all rulings of the Supreme Court ( Riigikohus ) and rulings by the two district and four regional courts since 2016 .

• Example: ECLI : EE: RK: 1995: 3.2.1.23.95.92

EL - Greece

Greece participates in the ECLI system with the Council of State .

• Example: ECLI : EL : COS: 2019: 0716A1319.15E1049

ES - Spain

ECLI coordinator: Center for Judicial Documentation, a technical facility of the General Council of Justice (Centro de Documentacion Judicial, Consejo General del Poder Judicial - CENDOJ-CGPJ).

• Example: ECLI : ES: AN : 2014: 2389
  • ECLI;
  • the country code: "ES";
  • the court code : an acronym indicating the court where the judgment was given (see: Repositorio Oficial de Jurisprudencia - ROJ identifier);
    • "AN" for national court (Audiencia Nacional)
    • the year of the decision (example: 2014);
    • the serial number (example: 2389) which, in the case of Spain, corresponds to the serial number after the national ROJ identifier;
    • In addition, in the case of a resolution (car), the letter A is added to the serial number.

• Oldest Spanish decision with ECLI: ECLI : ES: TS : 1852: 1

FI - Finland

ECLI coordinator: Ministry of Justice (Oikeusministeriö, Justitieministeriet)

• Example Supreme Court (KKO) : ECLI: FI : KKO: 2011: 43
• Example Supreme Administrative Court (KHO) : ECLI : FI: KHO: 2003: 98

At the Administrative Court (KHO) there is a special feature for the publication of a summary of the judgment (not a full text) in which the running number is preceded by a T (Taltionumero).

• Example: ECLI: FI: KHO: 2010: T3764

FR - France

France started implementing the ECLI in September 2012.

ECLI coordinator: Directorate for Legal and Administrative Information (Direction de l'information légale et administrative - DILA)

• Example Conseil constitutionnel : ECLI : FR: CC: 2012: 2012.270.QPC
• Example Cour de cassation : ECLI : FR: CCASS: 2013: CR00710
• Example Conseil d'État : ECLI : FR: CESSR: 2013: 355099.20130301

HR - Croatia

Croatia started implementation on January 18, 2017.

• Example: ECLI : HR: VSRH: 2004: 6455

IT - Italy

ECLI coordinator: General Directorate for Informatics (Direzione Generale Sistemi Informativi Automatizzati - DGSIA) of the Italian Ministry of Justice

• Example Corte costituzionale : ECLI : IT: COST: 1962: 46
• Example Corte Suprema di Cassazione : ECLI : IT: CASS: 2015: 5513CIV
• Example VG Bozen: ECLI : IT: TRGABZ: 2019: 178SENT

LV - Latvia

ECLI Coordinator: Court Administration (Tiesu administrācija)

• Example: ECLI : LV : AT: 2019: 0226.A420227714.4.S

MT - Malta

Malta started implementing the ECLI in 2011. Courts of Malta is the national ECLI coordinator.

• Example: ECLI: MT: AKI: 2020: 119835

NL - Netherlands

The ECLI was introduced in the Netherlands on June 28, 2013 and replaces the national LJN identifier.

ECLI coordinator: Dutch Judicial Council (Raad voor de Rechtsspraak)

• Court codes

Structure of the ECLI:

• “ECLI”;
• Country code "NL";
• Code of court
• Year of decision;
• Serial number:
  • Before June 28, 2013, practically all decisions that were published in the Netherlands were given a "LJN" (Landelik Jurisprudentie number or country case number). The LJN consisted of two letters and four digits according to the pattern "AB1234". To maintain consistency, the LJN is included as the fifth component in the ECLI code.
    • Example: ECLI : NL: HR : 1919: AG1776
  • Since June 28, 2013, LJNs are no longer issued. Since then, all decisions that receive an ECLI have been given a serial number consisting exclusively of digits. This may also apply to decisions made before June 28, 2013.
    • Example: ECLI : NL: RVS : 2014: 4117 ( Zwarte Piet case )

PT - Portugal

ECLI coordinator: Supreme Council of Justice (Conselho Superior da Magistratura)

• Example: ECLI : PT: STJ : 2018: 2069.14.1T8PRT.P1.S1.24

RO - Romania

ECLI coordinator: Ministry of Justice (Ministerul Justiției)

• Court codes

SI - Slovenia

Slovenia introduced the ECLI on October 1, 2011.

ECLI coordinator: Supreme Court of the Republic of Slovenia (Vrhovno sodišče Republike Slovenije)

• Example: ECLI : SI: VSRS: 2009: IV.IPS.36.2009.A

SK - Slovakia

In Slovakia , ECLI are awarded for all court rulings published after July 25, 2011 (with exceptions and special regulations).

ECLI coordinator: Legal Informatics and Legal Statistics Division of the Ministry of Justice of the Slovak Republic (Ministerstva spravodlivosti Slovenskej republiky).

• Example: ECLI: SK: NSSR: 2018: 6017200055.1

Court codes

Area	Court code	Name of the court in the original language	Name of the court in German
EU	C.	Curia	European Court of Justice
EU	T	tribunal	Court of the European Union
CE	ECHR	European Court of Human Rights	European Court of Human Rights
EP	BA	Board of Appeal	Board of Appeal
AT	VFGH	Constitutional Court
AT	OGH0002	Supreme Court
AT	OLG0009	Higher Regional Court of Vienna
AT	OLG0459	Higher Regional Court Linz
AT	OLG0639	Higher Regional Court of Graz
AT	OLG0819	Higher Regional Court Innsbruck
AT	LG00003	Regional Court for Civil Law Matters Vienna
AT	LG00007	Commercial Court Vienna
AT	LG00021	Labor and Social Court Vienna
AT	LG00046	Regional Court for Criminal Matters Vienna
AT	LG00638	Regional Court for Civil Law Matters Graz
AT	LG .....	Regional court
AT	BG .....	District Court
AT	VWGH	Administrative Court
AT	BFG	Federal Finance Court
AT	BVWG	Federal Administrative Court
AT	LVWG ..	Provincial Administrative Court
AT	DSB	Data protection authority
AT	PVAB	Personnel representation supervisory authority
BE	CASS	Cour de cassation / Hof van Cassatie	Court of Cassation
BE	CA BRL / LIE / MON HB ANT / GNT	Cour d'appel du ressort de Bruxelles / Liège / Mons Hof van Beroep van het Rechtsgebied Antwerp / Gent	Court of Appeal Brussels / Liège / Bergen / Antwerp / Ghent
BE	PI ... EA ...	Tribunal de première instance Rechtbank eerste aanleg	First instance court
BE	TC ... KH ...	Tribunal de Commerce Rechtbank van Koophandel	Commercial court
BE	CT ... AH ...	Cour du travail Arbeidshof	Labor Court
BE	TT ... AR ...	Tribunal du travail Arbeidsrechtbank	Labor court
BG	CC000	Конституционен съд на България	Constitutional Court of the Republic of Bulgaria
BG	SC001	Върховен касационен съд	Supreme Court of Cassation
BG	AP.00	Апелативен съд София / Бургас / Варна / Велико Търново / Пловдив	Court of Appeal Sofia / Burgas / Varna / Veliko Tarnovo / Plovdiv
BG	DC..0	Окръжен съд	District Court
BG	RC ...	Районен съд	District Court
BG	PA101	Апелативен специализиран наказателен съд	Organized Crime Court of Appeal
BG	PC105	Специализиран наказателен съд	Organized Crime Tribunal
BG	MA600	Военно-апелативен съд	Military Court of Appeal
BG	MC6.0	Военен съд	Military court
BG	SA002	Върховен административен съд	Supreme Administrative Court
BG	AD7 ..	Административен съд	Administrative court
CZ	US	Ústavní soud České republiky	Constitutional Court of the Czech Republic
CZ	NS	Nejvyšší soud České republiky	Supreme Court of the Czech Republic
CZ	VS PH / OL	Vrchní soud v Praze / Olomouci	High Court of Prague / Olomouc
CZ	KS ..	Krajský soud	District Court
CZ	MSPH	Městský soud v Praze	City Court in Prague
CZ	NSS	Nejvyšší správní soud	Supreme Administrative Court
DE	BVerfG	Federal Constitutional Court
DE	BAYVERF	Bavarian Constitutional Court
DE	LVG ..	State Constitutional Court
DE	STGH ..	State Court
DE	AVAILABLE	Constitutional Court / High Court
DE	VFGHNRW	Constitutional Court for the State of North Rhine-Westphalia
DE	VGHSL	Constitutional Court of the Saarland
DE	BGH	Federal Court of Justice
DE	BAYOBLG	Bavarian Supreme Court
DE	KG	Superior Court
DE	OLG ....	Higher Regional Court
DE	POLGZWE	Palatinate Higher Regional Court Zweibrücken
DE	LG .....	district Court
DE	AG .....	District Court
DE	BPatG	Federal Patent Court
DE	AWGH ... / AGH ..	Attorney's Court
DE	AWG ...	Attorney's Court
DE	DGH ...	Service court for judges
DE	DG ...	Service court for judges
DE	LBG ...	State Professional Court
DE	BG ...	Professional court
DE	SCHOG ..	Higher Shipping Court
DE	SCHG ..	Shipping Court
DE	BAG	Federal Labor Court
DE	LAG ....	State Labor Court
DE	LARBGSH	Schleswig-Holstein Regional Labor Court
DE	ARBG ...	Labor court
DE	BVerwG	Federal Administrative Court
DE	OVG ....	Higher Administrative Court
DE	BAYVGH	Bavarian Administrative Court
DE	VGHBW	Administrative Court of Baden-Württemberg
DE	VGHHE	Hessian Administrative Court
DE	VG .....	Administrative court
DE	-? -	Troop Service Court
DE	BSG	Federal Social Court
DE	LSG ....	Regional Social Court
DE	BAYLSG	Bavarian State Social Court
DE	SG .....	social Court
DE	BFH	Federal Fiscal Court
DE	FG .....	Finance court
EE	RK	Riigikohus	State Court
EE	..RK TL / TR	Ring connector Tallinna / Tartu	Tallinn / Tartu District Court
EE	.MK H / P / T / V	Maakohus Harju / Pärnu / Tartu / Viru	District Court Harju / Pärnu / Tartu / Viru
EE	.. HK TL / TR	Halduskohus Tallinna / Tartu	Tallinn / Tartu Administrative Court
Tbsp	COS	Συμβούλιο της Επικρατείας	State Council
IT	TS	Tribunal Supremo	Supreme Court
IT	ON	Audiencia Nacional	National dish
IT	TSJ ....	Tribunal Superior de Justicia	Supreme Court
IT	AP ..	Audiencia Provincial	Provincial Court
IT	JCA	Juzgado de lo Contencioso Administrativo	Administrative court
IT	JF	Juzgado de Familia	Family court
IT	JI	Juzgado de Instrucción	Investigative court
IT	JM	Juzgado de lo Mercantil	Commercial court
IT	JME	Juzgado de Menores	Juvenile court
IT	JP	Juzgado de lo Penal	Criminal court
IT	JPI	Juzgado de Primera Instancia	Court of First Instance
IT	JPII	Juzgado de Primera Instancia e Instrucción	Court of first instance and investigative court
IT	JSO	Juzgado de lo Social	Labor and social court
IT	JVM	Juzgado de Violencia sobre la Mujer	Court with jurisdiction in cases of violence against women
IT	JVP	Juzgado de Vigilancia Penitenciaria	Prison Supervision Court
FI	KKO	Korkein oikeus / Högsta domstolen	Supreme Court
FI	... HO HEL / IS / KOU / R / T / V	Hovioikeus / Hovrätt Helsingin / Itä-Suomen / Kouvolan / Rovaniemen / Turun / Vaasan	Appeal Court Helsinki / Eastern Finland / Kouvola / Rovaniemi / Turku / Vaasa
FI	MAO	Markkinaoikeus / Marknadsdomstolen	Market court
FI	TTO	Työtuomioistuin / Arbetsdomstolen	Labor court
FI	VAKO	Vakuutusoikeus / Försäkringsdomstolen	Insurance court
FI	KHO	Korkein hallinto-oikeus / Högsta förvaltningsdomstolen	Supreme Administrative Court
FI	... HAO	Hallinto-oikeus / Förvaltningsdomstolen	Administrative court
FR	CC	Conseil constitutionnel	Constitutional Council
FR	CCASS	Cour de cassation	Court of Cassation
FR	CE ASS	Conseil d'État - Assemblée	Council of State - General Assembly
FR	CE ORD	Conseil d'État - Ordonnance	Council of State - Order
FR	CE SEC	Conseil d'État - Section du contentieux	State Council - Legal Department
FR	CE SJS	Conseil d'État - Sous-section jugeant seule	State Council - subdivision as a single body
FR	CE SSR	Conseil d'État - Sous-sections reunies	State Council - subdivisions together
FR	CE CHS	Conseil d'État - Chambre jugeant seule	Council of State - Chamber as a single body
FR	CE CHR	Conseil d'État - Chambres réunies	State Council - chambers together
FR	TC	Tribunal des conflits	Conflict of jurisdiction court
MR	VSRH	Vrhovni Sud Republike Hrvatske	Supreme Court of the Republic of Croatia
MR	VTS	Visoki trgovački sud	High Commercial Court
MR	ZS ..	Županijski sud	County Court
MR	OS ..	Općinski sud	District Court
MR	VUS	Visoki upravni sud	High administrative court
MR	VPS	Visoki prekršajni sud	High court for administrative offenses
IT	COST	Corte costituzionale	Constitutional Court
IT	CASS	Corte Suprema di Cassazione	Supreme Court of Cassation
IT	CDS	Consiglio di Stato	State Council
IT	CGARS	Consiglio di giustizia amministrativa per la Regione Siciliana	Administrative Justice Council for the Autonomous Region of Sicily
IT	TAR ...	Tribunale amministrativo regional	Regional administrative court
IT	TRGA ..	Tribunale regional di giustizia amministrativa (Trentino-Alto Adige)	Regional court of administrative jurisdiction (Trentino-South Tyrol)
IT	CONT	Corte dei conti	Court of Auditors
LV	AT	Augstākā Tiesa	Supreme Court
LV	..AT R / KU / LA / V / Z	Apgabaltiesa Rīgas / Kurzemes / Latgales / Vidzemes / Zemgales	Regional court Courland / Latgale / Livonia / Semgallia
LV	..RT	Rajona tiesa	District Court
LV	... T	Tiesa	City Court
LV	ADAT	Administratīvā apgabaltiesa	Regional Administrative Court
LV	ADT.	Administratīvā rajona tiesa	District Administrative Court
MT	KOS	Qorti Kostituzzjonali	Constitutional Court
MT	TTRA	Tribunal ta 'Reviżjoni Amministrattiva	Administrative Audit Court
MT	ACIV	Qorti ta 'l-Appelli Ċivili (Superjuri)	Civil appeal court (higher jurisdiction)
MT	AINF	Qorti ta 'l-Appelli Ċivili (Inferjuri)	Civil appeal court (lower jurisdiction)
MT	AAMM	Qorti ta 'l-Appelli Ċivili (Inferjuri), Amministrattiv	Civil appeal court (lower jurisdiction), administrative matters
MT	ABRD	Qorti ta 'l-Appelli Ċivili (Inferjuri), Bordijiet	Civil Appeal Court (Lower Jurisdiction) Boards
MT	AKS	Qorti ta 'l-Appelli Kriminali (Superjuri)	Criminal Appeal Court (higher jurisdiction)
MT	AKI	Qorti ta 'l-Appelli Kriminali (Inferjuri)	Criminal Appeal Court (lower jurisdiction)
MT	CIVP	Qorti Ċivili, Prim Awla	Civil Court, First Hall
MT	COST	Qorti Ċivili, Prim Awla, Sede Kostituzzjonali	Civil Court, First Hall, Constitutional Matters
MT	FMLJ	Qorti Ċivili, Sezzjoni tal-Familja	Civil court, family matters
MT	KUM	Qorti Ċivili, Sezzjoni tal-Kummerc	Civil court, commercial matters
MT	QK	Qorti Kriminali	Criminal court
MT	CIV	Qorti tal-Magistrati (Ċivili)	Magistrate Court (civil matters)
MT	GPIN	Qorti tal-Magistrati (Gudodoxa Kriminali)	Magistrate Court (criminal matters)
NL	MR	Hoge Raad	High Council (Supreme Court)
NL	PHR	Parket at the Hoge Raad	Public Prosecutor's Office at the High Council
NL	RVS	Raad van State	State Council
NL	CRVB	Centrale Raad van Beroep	Central Court of Appeal (civil service and social security law)
NL	CBB	College van Beroep voor het bedrijfsleven	Court of appeal for economic (administrative) matters
NL	GH AMS / ARL / DHA / SHE	Gerechtshof Amsterdam / Arnhem-Leeuwarden / The Hague / 's-Hertogenbosch	Appeal Court of Amsterdam / Arnhem-Leeuwarden / The Hague / 's-Hertogenbosch
NL	RB ...	Law bank	District Court
PT	STJ	Supremo Tribunal de Justiça	Supreme Court
PT	TR . L / C / E / G / P	Tribunal da Relação de Lisboa / Coimbra / Évora / Guimarães / Porto	Appeal Court Lisbon / Coimbra / Évora / Guimarães / Porto
RO	ICCJ	Înalta Curte de Casație și Justiție	Supreme Court and Cassation Court
RO	CA ...	Curtea de Apel	Appeals court
RO	TB ...	tribunal	district Court
RO	TBS ..	Tribunalul Specializat	Specialized Court
RO	JD ...	Judecătoria	District Court
SI	USRS	Ustavno sodišče Republike Slovenije	Constitutional Court of the Republic of Slovenia
SI	VSRS	Vrhovno sodišče Republike Slovenije	Supreme Court of the Republic of Slovenia
SI	VS LJ / CE / KP / MB	Višje sodišče v Ljubljani / Celju / Kopru / Maribor	Higher Court of Ljubljana / Celje / Koper / Maribor
SI	VDSS	Višje delovno in socialno sodišče	Higher Labor and Social Court
SI	UPRS	Upravno sodišče Republike Slovenije	Administrative Court of the Republic of Slovenia
SK	NSSR	Najvyšší south Slovenskej republiky	Supreme Court of the Slovak Republic
SK	KS ..	Krajský south	Regional dish
SK	OS ...	Okresný súd	District Court

See also

• Court code
• European Legislation Identifier (ELI)
• E-justice
• European e-Justice Portal

Web links

• ECLI search engine
• European Case Law Identifier (ECLI) (multilingual).
• Council conclusions calling for the introduction of the European Case Law Identifier (ECLI) and a minimum set of uniform metadata for case law
• Codes of the Member States and the candidate countries according to the Interinstitutional Rules for Publications
• Interactive explanation of the ECLI using the example of the Federal Administrative Court .
• Alexander Rott: The European Case Law Identifier - EU standard for a better judiciary . In: JurPC . JurPC web doc. 1/2017, doi : 10.7328 / jurpcb20173211 .

Individual evidence

1. ↑ The European Commission translates ECLI as “judgment identifier”. However, this is not necessarily the same as the Case Law Identifier . The various national databases also include not only judgments, but also other decisions by ordinary and extraordinary as well as administrative courts etc.
2. ↑ Recital 13 of the Council Conclusions calling for the introduction of the European Case Law Identifier (ECLI) and a minimum set of uniform metadata for case law, OJ 2011 / C 127/01.
3. ↑ OJ. C 127 of 29.4.2011, p. 1 .
4. ↑ Appendix § 5, the conclusions of the Council with a call for the introduction of the European Case Law Identifier (ECLI) and a minimum set of uniform metadata for case law.
5. ↑ Accessible via: e-justice.europa.eu/ecli ( Memento of the original from August 19, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. . See Recital 2 and Annex § 5 of the Council Conclusions with a call for the introduction of the European Case Law Identifier (ECLI) and a minimum set of uniform metadata for case law. 
6. ↑ In summary, see Marc von Opijnen: European Case Law Identifier: Indispensable Asset for Legal Information Retrieval. (PDF; 85 kB) p. 7 f. , accessed on June 8, 2015 . 
7. ↑ Appendix § 1 of the Council conclusions with a call for the introduction of the European Case Law Identifier (ECLI) and a minimum set of uniform metadata for case law.
8. ↑ For example: NL for the Netherlands or Belgium BE. According to Annex § 1 of the Council Conclusions on ECLI, the Interinstitutional Rules for Publication are used for Member States and candidate countries and the ISO 3166 alpha-2 code is used for all other countries. The European Union receives the code "EU". The European Commission defines a code for international organizations that want to participate in the system.
9. ↑ The court code consists of at least one and at most seven characters and must always begin with a letter. For example: HR for the Supreme Court of the Netherlands or RBMNE for a District Court in the Netherlands (center) or RBROT for the Rotterdam District Court.
10. ↑ Up to 25 alphanumeric characters are permitted as an identifier ( ordinal number ), the format of which is determined by each member state. In this case, instead of numbers and letters is also a point to be set, but no other punctuation marks .
11. ↑ HR stands z. B. for “Hoge Raad” (High Councilor).
12. ^ According to the system: Dublin Core Metadata Initiative ( DCMI ).
13. ↑ Appendix § 2, the conclusions of the Council with a call for the introduction of the European Case Law Identifier (ECLI) and a minimum set of uniform metadata for case law.
14. ↑ Recital 20 and Annex § 3, the conclusions of the Council with a call for the introduction of the European Case Law Identifier (ECLI) and a minimum set of uniform metadata for case law.
15. ↑ Appendix § 6, the conclusions of the Council with a call for the introduction of the European Case Law Identifier (ECLI) and a minimum set of uniform metadata for case law.
16. ↑ Recital 19 of the Council Conclusions calling for the introduction of the European Case Law Identifier (ECLI) and a minimum set of uniform metadata for case law, OJ 2011 / C 127/01.
17. ↑ List according to recital 20, lit. a) to i), the Council Conclusions calling for the introduction of the European Case Law Identifier (ECLI) and a minimum set of uniform metadata for case law, OJ 2011 / C 127/01.
18. ^ Iceland , Norway and Switzerland .
19. ↑ ECLI search engine. e-justice.europa.eu, accessed on May 21, 2020 . 
20. ↑ HUDOC : 167,000 total, 73,000 in English
21. ↑ RIS : 269,000 RIS Justice , 44,000 RIS-VfGH , 442,000 RIS-VwGH , 143,000 RIS-BVwG , 43,000 RIS-LVwG
22. ↑ only Supreme Administrative Court (KHO) via ACA-Europe
23. ↑ European Justice Portal, ecli-175-eu-de
24. ↑ Citation of the case law
25. ↑ P16-2018-001. hudoc.echr.coe, accessed May 21, 2020 . 
26. ↑ European Justice Portal, ecli-175-ii-de
27. ↑ European Justice Portal, ecli-175-AT-de
28. ↑ European Justice Portal, ecli-175-BE-de
29. ↑ European Justice Portal, ecli-175-BG-de
30. ↑ Nejvyšší soud ČR se připojil k systému ECLI
31. ↑ European Justice Portal, ecli-175-CZ-de
32. ↑ European Justice Portal, ecli-175-DE-de
33. ↑ Guidelines for the citation method and the use of abbreviations in the decisions of the Federal Administrative Court (citation guidelines)
34. ↑ European Justice Portal, ecli-175-EE-de
35. ↑ European Justice Portal, ecli-175-ES-de
36. ↑ European Justice Portal, ecli-175-FI-de
37. ^ L'identifiant ECLI sur les décisions du Conseil d'Etat et de la Cour de cassation .
38. ↑ European Justice Portal, ecli-175-FR-de
39. ↑ European Justice Portal, ecli-175-HR-de
40. ↑ European Justice Portal, ecli-175-LV-de
41. ↑ The inclusion of European Case Law Identifier (ECLI) code in Malta ( Memento of the original from August 11, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. . 
42. ↑ European Justice Portal, ecli-175-NL-de
43. ↑ European Justice Portal, ecli-175-RO-de
44. ^ Judiciary website
45. ↑ European Justice Portal, ecli-175-SI-de
46. ↑ European Justice Portal, ecli-175-SK-de
47. ↑ European e-Justice Portal, judicial organization of the member states

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