CELEX: 62019CA0393
Language: en
Date: 2021-01-14 00:00:00
Title: Case C-393/19: Judgment of the Court (First Chamber) of 14 January 2021 (request for a preliminary ruling from the Apelativen sad — Plovdiv — Bulgaria) — Criminal proceedings against OM (Reference for a preliminary ruling — Article 17 of the Charter of Fundamental Rights of the European Union — Right to property — Article 47 of the Charter of Fundamental Rights — Right to an effective remedy — Framework Decision 2005/212/JHA — Confiscation of crime-related proceeds, instrumentalities and property — Directive 2014/42/EU — Freezing and confiscation of instrumentalities and proceeds of crime in the European Union — National legislation providing for the confiscation, for the benefit of the State, of property used to commit the offence of smuggling — Property belonging to a third party acting in good faith)

8.3.2021   
            
            
               EN
            
            
               Official Journal of the European Union
            
            
               C 79/8
            
         
      Judgment of the Court (First Chamber) of 14 January 2021 (request for a preliminary ruling from the Apelativen sad — Plovdiv — Bulgaria) — Criminal proceedings against OM
      (Case C-393/19) (1)
      
      (Reference for a preliminary ruling - Article 17 of the Charter of Fundamental Rights of the European Union - Right to property - Article 47 of the Charter of Fundamental Rights - Right to an effective remedy - Framework Decision 2005/212/JHA - Confiscation of crime-related proceeds, instrumentalities and property - Directive 2014/42/EU - Freezing and confiscation of instrumentalities and proceeds of crime in the European Union - National legislation providing for the confiscation, for the benefit of the State, of property used to commit the offence of smuggling - Property belonging to a third party acting in good faith)
      (2021/C 79/09)
      Language of the case: Bulgarian
      
         Referring court
      
      Apelativen sad — Plovdiv
      
         Party in the main criminal proceedings
      
      OM
      
         Interveners in the main criminal proceedings: Okrazhna prokuratura — Haskovo, Apelativna prokuratura — Plovdiv
      
         Operative part of the judgment
      
      
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                  Article 2(1) of Council Framework Decision 2005/212/JHA of 24 February 2005 on Confiscation of Crime-Related Proceeds, Instrumentalities and Property, read in the light of Article 17(1) of the Charter of Fundamental Rights of the European Union, must be interpreted as precluding a national law which permits the confiscation of an instrumentality used to commit an aggravated smuggling offence where that property belongs to a third party acting in good faith;
               
            
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                  Article 4 of Framework Decision 2005/212/JHA, read in the light of Article 47 of the Charter of Fundamental Rights, must be interpreted as precluding a national law which permits the confiscation, in the context of criminal proceedings, of property belonging to a person other than the person who committed the criminal offence, without the former being afforded an effective remedy.
               
            
         (1)  OJ C 295, 2.9.2019.