CELEX: 62016CN0064
Language: en
Date: 2016-02-05 00:00:00
Title: Case C-64/16: Request for a preliminary ruling from the Supremo Tribunal Administrativo (Portugal) lodged on 5 February 2016 — Associação Sindical dos Juízes Portugueses v Tribunal de Contas

2.5.2016   
            
            
               EN
            
            
               Official Journal of the European Union
            
            
               C 156/23
            
         Request for a preliminary ruling from the Supremo Tribunal Administrativo (Portugal) lodged on 5 February 2016 — Associação Sindical dos Juízes Portugueses v Tribunal de Contas
   (Case C-64/16)
   (2016/C 156/32)
   Language of the case: Portuguese
   
      Referring court
   
   Supremo Tribunal Administrativo
   
      Parties to the main proceedings
   
   
      Applicant: Associação Sindical dos Juízes Portugueses
   
      Defendant: Tribunal de Contas
   
      Question referred
   
   In view of the mandatory requirements of eliminating the excessive budget deficit and of financial assistance regulated by EU rules, must the principle of judicial independence, enshrined in the second subparagraph of Article 19(1) TEU, in Article 47 of the Charter of Fundamental Rights of the European Union (1) and in the case-law of the Court of Justice, be interpreted as meaning that it precludes the measures to reduce remuneration that are applied to the judiciary in Portugal, where they are imposed unilaterally and on an ongoing basis by other constitutional authorities and bodies, as is the consequence of Article 2 of Law No 75/2014 of 12 September?
   
      (1)  OJ 2000 C 364, p. 1.