62022CO0243_INF
Order of the Court (Ninth Chamber) of 9 November 2022 –AB (Low severity offence)
(Case C‑243/22)
(Reference for a preliminary ruling – Charter of Fundamental Rights of the European Union – Scope – Article 49 – Principles of legality and proportionality of criminal offences and penalties – Exclusion of the criminal liability of the infringement on account of its lack of a particularly serious nature – National case-law prohibiting the application of a national rule before the Magistrate – Lack of connection to EU law – Clear lack of jurisdiction of the Court)
Questions referred – Jurisdiction of the Court – Limits – Request for interpretation of the Charter of Fundamental Rights – Subject matter of the national dispute having no connection with Union law – Manifest lack of jurisdiction of the Court
(Art. 6(1) TEU; Art. 267 TFEU; Charter of Fundamental Rights of the European Union, Art. 51(1) and (2); Rules of Procedure of the Court, Art. 53(2))
(see paragraphs 16-19, 21 and operative part)
Operative part of the order
The Court of Justice of the European Union clearly lacks jurisdiction to answer the questions referred by the Giudice di pace di Lecce (Magistrate, Lecce, Italy), by decision of 23 March 2022.