The article takes stock of the ‘procedure to allow an appeal to proceed’, that was put in place on 1 May 2019, with the entry into force of Article 58a of the Statute of the Court of Justice of the European Union and with the insertion of a new chapter 1a in Title V of the Rules of Procedure of the Court of Justice (Articles 170a and 170b). The need to reform the Statute of the CJEU arose from the observation that ...