Case C-510/24, Profil-Copy 2002: Judgment of the Court (Seventh Chamber) of 16 October 2025 (request for a preliminary ruling from the Fővárosi Törvényszék – Hungary) – PROFIL-COPY 2002 Irodatechnikai Kft. v Közigazgatási és Területfejlesztési Minisztérium (Reference for a preliminary ruling – Economic, social and territorial cohesion – EU funds – Management and control – Obligation for Member States to make arrangements to ensure the effective examination of complaints concerning EU funds – National legislation excluding any judicial remedy against a decision ordering repayment of an EU grant on account of an irregularity – Charter of Fundamental Rights of the European Union – Article 47 – Right to an effective remedy)
Date: 2025-10-16
Institutions: Court of Justice
Subjects: EU aid, civil proceedings, financial aid, financial solvency, fund (EU), preliminary issue, reimbursement of aid, right to an effective remedy








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Official Journal of the European Union


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C/2025/6113


8.12.2025






Judgment of the Court (Seventh Chamber) of 16 October 2025 (request for a preliminary ruling from the Fővárosi Törvényszék – Hungary) – PROFIL-COPY 2002 Irodatechnikai Kft. v Közigazgatási és Területfejlesztési Minisztérium


(Case C-510/24,
                (1)
Profil-Copy 2002)

(Reference for a preliminary ruling - Economic, social and territorial cohesion - EU funds - Management and control - Obligation for Member States to make arrangements to ensure the effective examination of complaints concerning EU funds - National legislation excluding any judicial remedy against a decision ordering repayment of an EU grant on account of an irregularity - Charter of Fundamental Rights of the European Union - Article 47 - Right to an effective remedy)
(C/2025/6113)
Language of the case: Hungarian

Referring court

Fővárosi Törvényszék

Parties to the main proceedings


Applicant: PROFIL-COPY 2002 Irodatechnikai Kft.

Defendant: Közigazgatási és Területfejlesztési Minisztérium

Operative part of the judgment







1.


Article 47 of the Charter of Fundamental Rights of the European Union
must be interpreted as meaning that the beneficiary of an EU grant awarded in the context of the implementation of Regulation (EU) 2021/1060 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 24 June 2021 laying down common provisions on the European Regional Development Fund, the European Social Fund Plus, the Cohesion Fund, the Just Transition Fund and the European Maritime, Fisheries and Aquaculture Fund and financial rules for those and for the Asylum, Migration and Integration Fund, the Internal Security Fund and the Instrument for Financial Support for Border Management and Visa Policy must have an effective judicial remedy against an enforceable decision of the managing authority of a programme supported by EU funds ordering that beneficiary to repay that grant.










2.


Article 47 of the Charter of Fundamental Rights
must be interpreted as meaning that the possibility for the beneficiary of an EU grant, first, to challenge indirectly an enforceable decision requiring it to repay that grant in an action brought before a civil court for a declaration that a decision ordering the withdrawal of that grant is unlawful and, second, to seek, in the context of that action, the adoption of interim measures in order to suspend the enforcement of that decision, constitutes an effective judicial remedy.






(1)  OJ C, C/2024/6403.


ELI: http://data.europa.eu/eli/C/2025/6113/oj
ISSN 1977-091X (electronic edition)