Judgment_paragraph 31 · The Queen v Secretary of State for Health, ex parte Cyril Richardson (C-137/94)

31The Court has consistently held that the interpretation which the Court of Justice gives to a rule of Community law in exercising its jurisdiction under Article 177 of the Treaty clarifies and defines where necessary the meaning and scope of that rule as it must be, or ought to have been, understood and applied from the time of its entry into force. It follows that the rule as so interpreted may, and must, be applied by the courts even to legal relationships arising and established before the judgment ruling on the request for interpretation, provided that in other respects the conditions enabling an action relating to the application of that rule to be brought before the courts having jurisdiction, are satisfied (see the judgment in Case 61/79 Denkavit Italiana [1980] ECR 1205, at paragraph 16).

The Queen v Secretary of State for Health, ex parte Cyril Richardson (C-137/94)

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