Judgment_paragraph 47 · Aldona Malgorzata Jany and Others v Staatssecretaris van Justitie (C-268/99)

47According to settled case-law, one language version of a multilingual text of Community law cannot alone take precedence over all other versions, since the uniform application of Community rules requires that they be interpreted in accordance with the actual intention of the person who drafted them and the objective pursued by that person, in particular in the light of the versions drawn up in all languages (see, inter alia, Case 29/69 Stauder [1969] ECR 419, paragraph 3, and Case C-219/95 P Fernere Nord v Commission [1997] ECR I-4411, paragraph 15). The same conclusion must also be drawn where, as in the present case, two language versions diverge from all the others, a fortiori since Article 120 of the Association Agreement between the Communities and Poland and Article 122 of the Association Agreement between the Communities and the Czech Republic provide that those Agreements are also valid in each of the languages in which they have been drawn up.

Aldona Malgorzata Jany and Others v Staatssecretaris van Justitie (C-268/99)

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