CELEX: 62011CO0411
Language: en
Date: 2011-12-15 00:00:00
Title: Order of the Court (Fifth Chamber) of 15 December 2011. # Zdeněk Altner v European Commission. # Appeal - Action for annulment. # Case C-411/11 P.

Order of the Court (Fifth Chamber) of 15 December 2011 – Altner v Commission
      (Case C-411/11 P)
      Appeal – Action for annulment – Commission’s refusal to bring infringement proceedings – Action for declaration of failure to act – Manifest inadmissibility – Right to an impartial court or tribunal
      1.                     Actions for annulment – Actionable measures – Commission’s refusal to bring infringement proceedings – Excluded (Art. 258
            TFEU) (see para. 8)
      2.                     Union law – Principles – Fundamental rights – Observance guaranteed by the Court – European Convention on Human Rights – Right
            to a fair trial – Implications (Art. 6(3) TEU) (see paras 13-15)
      Re: 
      
         Appeal against the order of the General Court (Fourth Chamber) of 6 July 2011 in Case T‑190/11 
               Altner
                v 
               Commission
                dismissing as manifestly inadmissible the applicant’s application for annulment of the Commission’s decision of 25 November
                  2010 to take no further action on the applicant’s complaint seeking a declaration that European Union law had been infringed
                  by the Czech legislation on legal protection of the right to vote, and for a declaration of failure to act in respect of the
                  unlawful refusal to act following from that decision – Infringement of the right to a fair trial in respect of the lack of
                  impartiality of the president of the formation of the court hearing the case.
               
            Operative part 
      
         
                  1.
               
               
                  
               
               
                  	The appeal is dismissed.
               
            
         
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                  	Mr Altner is ordered to pay the costs.