Order of the Court (Fifth Chamber) of 4 July 2012 —Ettaghi(Case C-73/12)
Reference for a preliminary ruling — No description of the dispute in the main proceedings — Manifest inadmissibility
Preliminary rulings — Admissibility — Questions referred without sufficient information on the factual and legislative context — Manifest inadmissibility (Art. 267 TFEU; Statute of the Court of Justice, Art. 23; Rules of Procedure of the General Court,
Arts 92(1) and 103(1)) (see paras 5-7)
Re:
Reference for a preliminary ruling — Giudice di Pace di Revere — Interpretation of Articles 2, 4, 6, 7, 8, 15 and 16 of Directive
2008/115/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council of 16 December 2008 on common standards and procedures in Member
States for returning illegally staying third-country nationals (OJ 2008 L 348, p. 98) and of Article 4(3) TEU — National legislation
imposing a fine on a third-country national who has entered or stayed in the country illegally — Admissibility of the criminal
offence of illegal stay — Possibility of substituting the fine with an order for expulsion with immediate effect for a period
of at least five years or with a home detention (‘permanenza domiciliare’) sentence — Obligations of the Member States during
the period prescribed for the transposition of a directive.
Operative part
The reference for a preliminary ruling from the Giudice di Pace di Revere (Italy), by decision of 26 January 2012, is clearly
inadmissible.