CELEX: 62010CB0314
Language: en
Date: 2011-09-22 00:00:00
Title: Case C-314/10: Order of the Court of 22 September 2011 (reference for a preliminary ruling from the Tribunal de première instance de Liège — Belgium — Hubert Pagnoul v Belgian State) (Articles 92(1), 103(1) and the first subparagraph of Article 104(3) of the Rules of Procedure — Reference for a preliminary ruling — Examination of compatibility of national rule both with European Union law and with national Constitution — National legislation requiring preliminary review procedure in case of constitutionality — Charter of Fundamental Rights of the European Union — Need for a connection with European Union law — Manifest lack of jurisdiction of the Court of Justice)

28.1.2012   
            
            
               EN
            
            
               Official Journal of the European Union
            
            
               C 25/22
            
         
      Order of the Court of 22 September 2011 (reference for a preliminary ruling from the Tribunal de première instance de Liège — Belgium — Hubert Pagnoul v Belgian State)
      (Case C-314/10) (1)
      
      (Articles 92(1), 103(1) and the first subparagraph of Article 104(3) of the Rules of Procedure - Reference for a preliminary ruling - Examination of compatibility of national rule both with European Union law and with national Constitution - National legislation requiring preliminary review procedure in case of constitutionality - Charter of Fundamental Rights of the European Union - Need for a connection with European Union law - Manifest lack of jurisdiction of the Court of Justice)
      (2012/C 25/37)
      Language of the case: French
      
         Referring court
      
      Tribunal de première instance de Liège
      
         Parties to the main proceedings
      
      
         Applicant: Hubert Pagnoul
      
         Defendant: Belgian State
      
         Re:
      
      Reference for a preliminary ruling — Tribunal de première instance de Liège — Interpretation of Articles 6 TEU, 267 TFEU and 47 of the Charter of Fundamental Rights of the European Union — Obligatory preliminary referral to the constitutional court by national courts in cases of presumed infringement of fundamental rights by national legislation — Compatibility with European Union law of the provision of national law requiring that preliminary referral — Possibility for national courts to review compatibility of national rules with international treaties where the constitutional court has declared the national legislation at issue to be compatible with the fundamental rights guaranteed by the Constitution
      
         Operative part of the order
      
      The Court of Justice of the European Union manifestly lacks jurisdiction to answer the question referred for a preliminary ruling by the Tribunal de première instance de Liège (Belgium).
      
         (1)  OJ C 246, 11.9.2010.