The Transfer of Preliminary Rulings to the EU General Court: Impact on CJEU Case Law in 2025

One of the most important judicial reforms within the European Union concerned the transfer of certain powers from the Court of Justice of the European Union to the General Court of the EU, a process that began in 2022 and was completed with the adoption of Regulation 2024/2019 of the European Parliament and of the Council of April 11, 2024, whose purpose was to amend Protocol No. 3 on the Statute of the Court of Justice of the European Union. This article explores only marginally the provisions of the new Regulation, in the context of identifying those areas that fall within the jurisdiction of the second EU court, with the primary focus being on the analysis of post-amendment case law, thus seeking to highlight the benefits of the transfer of jurisdiction, using comparative and historical legal research methods. This structural change in the architecture of the EU judicial system, designed to redistribute the volume of cases and streamline the Court's work, clearly has an impact on the uniformity of CJEU case law. The article attempts to analyze the first statistics and the first judgments of the General Court, highlighting the legal framework of the transfer, its implementation in 2025, its impact on case law, as well as the challenges and prospects for the future.