Acciaieria Ferriera Di Roma v ECSC High Authority: ECJ 10 May 1960

1. The provisions governing the language of the case are not provisions appertaining to public policy.
2. The court is cognizant of four languages as are all the institutions of the three communities. Therefore, by virtue of an irrebuttable presumption of law, the court is deemed to have knowledge of the contents of documents produced which are drawn up in the official languages of the community. Such a document may not be regarded as a fact unknown to the court within the meaning of the first paragraph of article 38 of the statute of the court annexed to the ecsc treaty.
3. An application for revision of a judgment is admissible only on discovery of a fact which, on the one hand, was unknown both to the court and to the party applying for the revision when the judgment was given and, on the other hand, is of such a nature as to be a decisive factor relating to the judgment the revision of which is claimed.

Citations:

C-1/60, [1960] EUECJ C-1/60

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Updated: 20 May 2022; Ref: scu.131623