62020CO0032_INF
Order of the Court (Seventh Chamber) of 4 June 2020 – Balga
(Case C‑32/20) (
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(Reference for a preliminary ruling – Article 53(2) of the Rules of Procedure of the Court of Justice – Article 30 of the Charter of Fundamental Rights of the European Union – Protection in the event of unjustified dismissal – Articles 20, 21, 34 and 47 of the Charter of Fundamental Rights of the European Union – Directive 98/59/EC –Collective dismissal – National legislation on the protection to be granted to a worker who is the victim of unjustified collective dismissal due to infringement of the criteria for the choice of workers to be dismissed – No situation of implementation of EU law, within the meaning of Article 51(1) of the Charter of Fundamental Rights of the European Union – Inapplicability of the Charter of Fundamental Rights – Manifest lack of jurisdiction )
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Questions referred for a preliminary ruling – Jurisdiction of the Court – Limits – Request for an interpretation of the Charter of Fundamental Rights of the European Union – National legislation not constituting a measure implementing EU law – Clear lack of jurisdiction of the Court
(Art. 6(1) TEU; Art. 267 TFEU; Charter of Fundamental Rights of the European Union, Arts 20, 21, 30, 34, 47 and 51(1) and (2); Rules of Procedure of the Court of Justice, Art. 53(2))
(see paras 23-27, 35, operative part)
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Social policy – Approximation of laws – Collective redundancies – Directive 98/59 – Scope – Terms of protection granted to a worker who has been the subject of unjustified collective dismissal as a result of an infringement of the criteria for the choice of workers to be dismissed – Not included
(Council Directive 98/59)
(see paras 31-34)
Operative part
The Court manifestly lacks jurisdiction to answer the questions referred by the Corte d’appello di Napoli (Court of Appeal of Naples, Italy), by decision of 18 September 2019.
(
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