Article 234 EC ensures that a divergent application of the ECTreaty or of the statutes and acts of its institutions is not allowedin any Member State. Unsurprisingly, its pivotal importance hasgiven rise to a huge number of ECJ judgments and orders - about700 by the beginning of 2009. Very often, a practitioner needsto establish whether the preliminary ruling procedure called forby Article 234 EC is required in a particular case being pursuedin a national court, and any relevant ECJ ruling or order must belocated. Herein lies the great value of this book.