62020CO0298_INF
Order of the Vice-President of the Court of Justice of 8 December 2020 – Price v Council
(Case C‑298/20 P(R))
(Appeal – Order for interim relief – Area of freedom, security and justice – Agreement on the withdrawal of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland from the European Union and the European Atomic Energy Community – Decision (EU) 2020/135 – Loss of EU citizenship – Loss of the right to vote – Municipal elections in the Member State of residence – Application for suspension of operation – No right to submit a reply – Examination of admissibility of the main action – Manifest inadmissibility of the main action)
1.
Application for interim relief – Procedure – Whether desirable to hear the parties – Whether appropriate to admit additional observations and documents after the end of the written or oral procedure – Discretion of the court hearing the application for interim relief
(Art. 278 TFEU; Statute of the Court of Justice, Arts 39, first para., and 53, first para.; Rules of Procedure of the General Court, Art. 157(1) and (2))
(see paras 24-27)
2.
Application for interim relief – Admissibility criteria – Application – Formal requirements – Statement of the pleas establishing a prima facie case for granting the measures sought – Possibility to supplement the information and evidence submitted in the application – Discretion of the Courts of the Union
(see paras 29-32, 34)
3.
Application for interim relief – Suspension of operation of a measure – Admissibility criteria – Prima facie admissibility of the main action – Summary examination of the main action by the court hearing the application for interim measures
(see paras 51, 52, 53)
4.
Appeal – Grounds – Mere repetition of the pleas and arguments put forward before the General Court – Error of law relied on not identified – Inadmissibility
(Art. 256 TFEU; Statute of the Court of Justice, Art. 58, first para.; Rules of Procedure of the Court of Justice, Art. 168(1)(d))
(see paras 68, 69)
5.
Action for annulment – Natural or legal persons – Measures of direct and individual concern to them – Person individually affected by a measure of a general nature – Conditions – Agreement on the withdrawal of the United Kingdom from the European Union and from Euratom and decision of the Council relating thereto – Action brought by an British national who is an expatriate in another Member State and who has lost his or her right to vote and to stand as a candidate in elections in that State – Not individually concerned – Inadmissibility
(Art. 263, fourth para., TFEU)
(see paras 75-80)
Operative part
1.
The appeal is dismissed.
2.
Mr David Price shall pay the costs.