CELEX: 62020CA0055
Language: en
Date: 2022-01-13 00:00:00
Title: Case C-55/20: Judgment of the Court (Third Chamber) of 13 January 2022 (request for a preliminary ruling from the Sąd Dyscyplinarny Izby Adwokackiej w Warszawie — Poland) — Proceedings initiated by the Minister Sprawiedliwości (Reference for a preliminary ruling — Admissibility — Article 267 TFEU — Definition of ‘court or tribunal of a Member State’ — Bar Association Disciplinary Court — Disciplinary investigation initiated against a lawyer — Decision of the Disciplinary Agent finding that there was no disciplinary offence and terminating the investigation — Appeal by the Minister for Justice to the Bar Association Disciplinary Court — Directive 2006/123/EC — Services in the internal market — Article 4, point (6), and Article 10(6) — Authorisation scheme — Withdrawal of authorisation — Article 47 of the Charter of Fundamental Rights of the European Union — Not applicable)

7.3.2022   
            
            
               EN
            
            
               Official Journal of the European Union
            
            
               C 109/5
            
         
      Judgment of the Court (Third Chamber) of 13 January 2022 (request for a preliminary ruling from the Sąd Dyscyplinarny Izby Adwokackiej w Warszawie — Poland) — Proceedings initiated by the Minister Sprawiedliwości
      (Case C-55/20) (1)
      
      (Reference for a preliminary ruling - Admissibility - Article 267 TFEU - Definition of ‘court or tribunal of a Member State’ - Bar Association Disciplinary Court - Disciplinary investigation initiated against a lawyer - Decision of the Disciplinary Agent finding that there was no disciplinary offence and terminating the investigation - Appeal by the Minister for Justice to the Bar Association Disciplinary Court - Directive 2006/123/EC - Services in the internal market - Article 4, point (6), and Article 10(6) - Authorisation scheme - Withdrawal of authorisation - Article 47 of the Charter of Fundamental Rights of the European Union - Not applicable)
      (2022/C 109/06)
      Language of the case: Polish
      
         Referring court
      
      Sąd Dyscyplinarny Izby Adwokackiej w Warszawie
      
         Parties to the main proceedings
      
      
         Applicant: Minister Sprawiedliwości
      
         Intervening parties: Prokurator Krajowy — Pierwszy Zastępca Prokuratora Generalnego, Rzecznik Dyscyplinarny Izby Adwokackiej w Warszawie
      
         Operative part of the judgment
      
      Article 10(6) of Directive 2006/123/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council of 12 December 2006 on services in the internal market must be interpreted as not having the effect of rendering Article 47 of the Charter of Fundamental Rights of the European Union applicable to appeal proceedings brought by a State authority before a Bar Association Disciplinary Court and seeking annulment of a decision by which a Disciplinary Agent closed an investigation into a lawyer after finding that there was no disciplinary offence attributable to that lawyer and, should that decision be annulled, to the referral back of the file to that disciplinary agent.
      
         (1)  OJ C 191, 8.6.2020.