Information;Order — ECLI:EU:T:2020:552
Date: 2020-11-19
Language of the case: Spanish
Court formation: Sixth Chamber
Subject matter: Provisions governing the Institutions
Procedure: Action for annulment - inadmissible
Origin: Spain

Judgment of the General Court of 19 November 2020 – Buxadé Villalba and Others v Parliament (Case T–32/20) 1 (Action for annulment – Law governing the institutions – Member of the Parliament – Acknowledgement by the Parliament of the election as Members of the European Parliament of two Spanish elected representatives – Locus standi of three other Members of the European Parliament – Lack of individual concern – Application for a declaratory judgment – Action partly inadmissible and partly brought before a court that is manifestly incompetent to hear it) Language of the case: Spanish Parties Applicants: Jorge Buxadé Villalba (Madrid, Spain) María Esperanza Araceli Aguilar Pinar (Madrid), Hermann Tertsch Del Valle-Lersundi (Madrid) (represented by: M. Castro Fuertes, lawyer) Defendant: European Parliament (represented by: N. Görlitz and C. Burgos, acting as Agents) Re: Application under Article 263 TFEU seeking the annulment of the Parliament’s acknowledgment of the election as Members of the European Parliament of Mr Carles Puigdemont i Casamajó and Mr Antoni Comín i Oliveres, announced by the President of the Parliament at the plenary sitting of 13 January 2020. Operative part of the judgment The Court: Dismisses the action as partly inadmissible and as partly brought before a court that is manifestly incompetent to hear it; Declares that there is no longer any need to adjudicate on the applications to intervene of the Kingdom of Spain and of Mr Carles Puigdemont i Casamajó and Mr Antoni Comín i Oliveres; Orders Mr Jorge Buxadé Villalba, Mr Hermann Tertsch Del Valle-Lersundi and Ms María Esperanza Araceli Aguilar Pinar to bear their own costs and to pay those incurred by the European Parliament; Orders the Kingdom of Spain, Mr Puigdemont i Casamajó and Mr Comín i Oliveres to bear the costs relating to their respective applications to intervene. ____________ 1 OJ C 77, 9.3.2020.