CELEX: 62018CA0202
Language: en
Date: 2019-02-26 00:00:00
Title: Joined Cases C-202/18 and C-238/18: Judgment of the Court (Grand Chamber) of 26 February 2019 — Ilmārs Rimšēvičs (C-202/18), European Central Bank (ECB) (C-238/18) v Republic of Latvia (European System of Central Banks — Action based on infringement of the second subparagraph of Article 14.2 of the Statute of the European System of Central Banks and of the European Central Bank — Decision of a national authority suspending the governor of the national central bank from office)

15.4.2019   
            
            
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               Official Journal of the European Union
            
            
               C 139/19
            
         
      Judgment of the Court (Grand Chamber) of 26 February 2019 — Ilmārs Rimšēvičs (C-202/18), European Central Bank (ECB) (C-238/18) v Republic of Latvia
      (Joined Cases C-202/18 and C-238/18) (1)
      
      (European System of Central Banks - Action based on infringement of the second subparagraph of Article 14.2 of the Statute of the European System of Central Banks and of the European Central Bank - Decision of a national authority suspending the governor of the national central bank from office)
      (2019/C 139/18)
      Language of the case: Latvian
      
         Parties
      
      
         Applicants: Ilmārs Rimšēvičs (represented by: S. Vārpiņš, M. Kvēps and I. Pazare, advokāti) (C-202/18), European Central Bank (ECB) (represented by: C. Zilioli, K. Kaiser and C. Kroppenstedt, acting as Agents, and by D. Sarmiento Ramírez-Escudero, abogado, and by V. Čuske-Jurjeva, advokāte) (C–238/18)
      
         Defendant: Republic of Latvia (represented by: I. Kucina and J. Davidoviča, acting as Agents)
      
         Operative part of the judgment
      
      The Court:
      
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                  Joins Cases C-202/18 and C-238/18 for the purposes of the judgment;
               
            
                  2.
               
               
                  Annuls the decision of the Korupcijas novēršanas un apkarošanas birojs (Anti-Corruption Office, Latvia) of 19 February 2018 in so far as it prohibits Mr Ilmārs Rimšēvičs from performing his duties as Governor of the Central Bank of Latvia;
               
            
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                  Orders the Republic of Latvia to bear its own costs and to pay those incurred by the European Central Bank (ECB).
               
            
         (1)  OJ C 161, 7.5.2018.