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This chapter briefly considers the Reference for Interpretation Procedure, which enables national courts in West Africa to refer issues bordering on interpretation of ECOWAS texts to Community Court merely for construction purposes. It sheds lights on when a national court is not bound to make such reference to the Community Court. Also, the chapter outlines the conditions for the application of the procedure, its importance, as well as the duty to refer.

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Notes

  1. 1.

    2005, p. 51.

  2. 2.

    1991 as amended.

  3. 3.

    2012, p. 10.

  4. 4.

    Da Costa en Schaake NV v Nederlandse Belastingadministratie 1963, p. 31.

  5. 5.

    Article 247 TFEU 2008.

  6. 6.

    Case 283/81 CILFIT [1982], p. 3415.

  7. 7.

    Traghetti del Mediterraneo v Repubblica Italiana 2006, p. I-5177.

  8. 8.

    Article 10. Protocol on Court 1991.

  9. 9.

    Ibid.

  10. 10.

    Brooks (2006), p. 55.

  11. 11.

    Harris and Horspool (2008), p. 120.

  12. 12.

    1981.

  13. 13.

    1993, p. 1304.

  14. 14.

    Supra.

  15. 15.

    Defrenne v Sabena, 1976; Costa v Enel 1964; Van Gend en Loos 1963.

  16. 16.

    Harris and Horspool (2008), p. 119.

  17. 17.

    Supplementary Protocol.

  18. 18.

    Foto-Frost & Hautzollamt Lubeck-ost 1987, p. 4235.

  19. 19.

    Article 10(f) Supplementary Protocol.

  20. 20.

    Garner (2004), p. 1000.

  21. 21.

    Supra.

  22. 22.

    Article 265 Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union.

  23. 23.

    Ibid.

  24. 24.

    Kobler v Republik Osterreich 2003, pp. 10305–10307.

  25. 25.

    2005.

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    Jerry Ukaigwe (Director, Former Lecturer)

  2. School of Law, Zenith University College, Accra, Ghana

    Jerry Ukaigwe (Director, Former Lecturer)

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Ukaigwe, J. (2016). Reference for Interpretation. In: ECOWAS Law. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-26233-8_7

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