Joined Cases C-363/21 and C-364/21, Ferrovienord and Others: Judgment of the Court (First Chamber) of 13 July 2023 (requests for a preliminary ruling from the Corte dei conti — Italy) — Ferrovienord SpA v Istituto Nazionale di Statistica — ISTAT (C-363/21), Federazione Italiana Triathlon v Istituto Nazionale di Statistica — ISTAT, Ministero dell’Economia e delle Finanze (C-364/21) (References for a preliminary ruling — Second paragraph of Article 19(1) TEU — Obligation on Member States to provide remedies sufficient to ensure effective legal protection in the fields covered by EU law — Economic policy — Regulation (EU) No 549/2013 — European system of national and regional accounts in the European Union (ESA) — Directive 2011/85/EU — Requirements for budgetary frameworks of the Member States — National legislation limiting the jurisdiction of the audit court — Principles of effectiveness and equivalence — Article 47 of the Charter of Fundamental Rights of the European Union)
Date: 2023-07-13
Institutions: Court of Justice
Subjects: European accounting system, Italy, budgetary power, direct applicability, economic convergence, economic statistics, financial statistics, judicial review, public expenditure, right to justice








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11.9.2023   


EN


Official Journal of the European Union


C 321/4






Judgment of the Court (First Chamber) of 13 July 2023 (requests for a preliminary ruling from the Corte dei conti — Italy) — Ferrovienord SpA v Istituto Nazionale di Statistica — ISTAT (C-363/21), Federazione Italiana Triathlon v Istituto Nazionale di Statistica — ISTAT, Ministero dell’Economia e delle Finanze (C-364/21)
(Joined Cases C-363/21 and C-364/21, (1) Ferrovienord and Others)
(References for a preliminary ruling - Second paragraph of Article 19(1) TEU - Obligation on Member States to provide remedies sufficient to ensure effective legal protection in the fields covered by EU law - Economic policy - Regulation (EU) No 549/2013 - European system of national and regional accounts in the European Union (ESA) - Directive 2011/85/EU - Requirements for budgetary frameworks of the Member States - National legislation limiting the jurisdiction of the audit court - Principles of effectiveness and equivalence - Article 47 of the Charter of Fundamental Rights of the European Union)
(2023/C 321/04)
Language of the case: Italian

Referring court

Corte dei conti

Parties to the main proceedings


Applicants: Ferrovienord SpA (C-363/21), Federazione Italiana Triathlon (C-364/21)

Defendants: Istituto Nazionale di Statistica — ISTAT (C-363/21), Istituto Nazionale di Statistica — ISTAT, Ministero dell’Economia e delle Finanze (C-364/21)

Intervening parties: Procura generale della Corte dei Conti, Ministero dell’Economia e delle Finanze (C-363/21), Procura generale della Corte dei Conti (C-364/21)

Operative part of the judgment

Regulation (EU) No 473/2013 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 21 May 2013 on common provisions for monitoring and assessing draft budgetary plans and ensuring the correction of excessive deficit of the Member States in the euro area, Regulation (EU) No 549/2013 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 21 May 2013 on the European system of national and regional accounts in the European Union, Council Directive 2011/85/EU of 8 November 2011 on requirements applicable for budgetary frameworks of the Member States and the second subparagraph of Article 19(1) TEU, read in the light of Article 47 of the Charter of Fundamental Rights of the European Union and the principles of equivalence and effectiveness,
must be interpreted as not precluding national legislation which limits the jurisdiction of the audit court to rule on the merits of the inclusion of an entity on the list of government units, provided that the effectiveness of those regulations and of that directive and the effective judicial protection required by EU law are guaranteed.


(1)  
            OJ C 349, 30.8.2021.