CELEX: 62014CN0456
Language: en
Date: 2014-10-02 00:00:00
Title: Case C-456/14: Request for a preliminary ruling from the Tribunal Superior de Justicia of Castilla La Mancha (Spain) lodged on 2 October 2014  — Manuel Orrego Arias v Subdelegación del Gobierno en Ciudad Real

8.12.2014   
            
            
               EN
            
            
               Official Journal of the European Union
            
            
               C 439/23
            
         Request for a preliminary ruling from the Tribunal Superior de Justicia of Castilla La Mancha (Spain) lodged on 2 October 2014 — Manuel Orrego Arias v Subdelegación del Gobierno en Ciudad Real
   (Case C-456/14)
   (2014/C 439/31)
   Language of the case: Spanish
   
      Referring court
   
   Tribunal Superior de Justicia of Castilla La Mancha
   
      Parties to the main proceedings
   
   
      Applicant: Manuel Orrego Arias
   
      Defendant: Subdelegación del Gobierno en Ciudad Real
   
      Question referred
   
   The interpretation of the first paragraph of Article 3(1)(a) of Council Directive 2001/40/EC (1) of 28 May, and in particular on whether the term ‘offence punishable by a penalty involving deprivation of liberty of at least one year’, set out in that provision, refers to the penalty prescribed in abstracto for the offence in question or, on the contrary, to the actual term of imprisonment imposed on the convicted person and, in consequence, whether or not the decision of a Member State to expel a national of a third country sentenced to imprisonment of eight months would be recognised by other Member States.
   
      (1)  Council Directive 2001/40/EC of 28 May 2001 on the mutual recognition of decisions on the expulsion of third country nationals
   (OJ L 149, p. 34).