CELEX: 62020TA0088
Language: en
Date: 2021-10-06 00:00:00
Title: Case T-88/20: Judgment of the General Court of 6 October 2021 — Rivière and Others v Parliament (Institutional law — European Parliament — Measure adopted by the President of the European Parliament forbidding national flags being placed on the desks of Members of Parliament — Standards of conduct of Members of Parliament — Article 10(3) of the Parliament’s Rules of Procedure — Act not open to challenge — Inadmissibility)

6.12.2021   
            
            
               EN
            
            
               Official Journal of the European Union
            
            
               C 490/35
            
         
      Judgment of the General Court of 6 October 2021 — Rivière and Others v Parliament
      (Case T-88/20) (1)
      
      (Institutional law - European Parliament - Measure adopted by the President of the European Parliament forbidding national flags being placed on the desks of Members of Parliament - Standards of conduct of Members of Parliament - Article 10(3) of the Parliament’s Rules of Procedure - Act not open to challenge - Inadmissibility)
      (2021/C 490/38)
      Language of the case: French
      
         Parties
      
      
         Applicants: Jérôme Rivière (Nice, France) and the 10 other applicants whose names appear in the annex to the judgment (represented by: F. Wagner, lawyer)
      
         Defendant: European Parliament (represented by: N. Lorenz and T. Lukácsi, acting as Agents)
      
         Interveners in support of the applicants: Gunnar Beck (Neuss, Germany), Philippe Olivier (Draveil, France) (represented by: F. Wagner, lawyer)
      
         Re:
      
      Application under Article 263 TFEU seeking the annulment of the measure adopted by the President of the European Parliament on 13 January 2020 forbidding Members of Parliament from displaying the national flag on their desks.
      
         Operative part of the judgment
      
      The Court:
      
                  1.
               
               
                  Dismisses the action as inadmissible;
               
            
                  2.
               
               
                  Orders Mr Jérôme Rivière and the 10 other applicants whose names appear in the annex to bear their own costs and to pay the costs incurred by the European Parliament;
               
            
                  3.
               
               
                  Orders Mr Gunnar Beck and Mr Philippe Olivier to bear their own costs.
               
            
         (1)  OJ C 114, 6.4.2020.