62022CO0025_INF
Order of the Court (Seventh Chamber) of 14 July 2022 –Finanzamt Österreich (Family allowances for staff of an international organisation)
(Case C‑25/22)
(Reference for a preliminary ruling – Article 53(2) and Article 94 of the Rules of Procedure of the Court of Justice – Requirement to provide reasons justifying the need for an answer to the questions referred – Lack of sufficient information – Manifest inadmissibility)
1.
Questions referred for a preliminary ruling – Admissibility – Questions referred without sufficient information regarding the reasons justifying the need for an answer to the questions referred for a preliminary ruling – No connecting factor between the dispute in the main proceedings and the provisions of EU law referred to in the questions referred for a preliminary ruling – Manifest inadmissibility
(Art. 267 TFEU; Statute of the Court of Justice, Art. 23; Rules of Procedure of the Court of Justice, Arts 53(2) and 94(c))
(see paras 22-30, 36-40 and operative part)
2.
EU law – Principles – Equal treatment – Discrimination on grounds of nationality – Prohibition – Scope – Difference in treatment between nationals of Member States and nationals of non-member States – Not included
(Art. 18 TFEU)
(see para. 35)
Operative part
The request for a preliminary ruling from the Bundesfinanzgericht (Federal Finance Court, Austria), made by decision of 31 December 2021, is manifestly inadmissible.