CELEX: 62013CA0058
Language: en
Date: 2014-07-17 00:00:00
Title: Joined Cases C-58/13 and C-59/13: Judgment of the Court (Grand Chamber) of 17 July 2014 (requests for a preliminary ruling from the Consiglio Nazionale Forense –Italy) — Angelo Alberto Torresi (C-58/13), Pierfrancesco Torresi (C-59/13) v Consiglio dell’Ordine degli Avvocati di Macerata (Reference for a preliminary ruling — Freedom of movement for persons — Access to the profession of lawyer — Possibility of refusing registration in the Bar Council register to nationals of a Member State who have obtained their professional legal qualification in another Member State — Abuse of rights)

15.9.2014   
            
            
               EN
            
            
               Official Journal of the European Union
            
            
               C 315/9
            
         Judgment of the Court (Grand Chamber) of 17 July 2014 (requests for a preliminary ruling from the Consiglio Nazionale Forense –Italy) — Angelo Alberto Torresi (C-58/13), Pierfrancesco Torresi (C-59/13) v Consiglio dell’Ordine degli Avvocati di Macerata
   (Joined Cases C-58/13 and C-59/13) (1)
   
   ((Reference for a preliminary ruling - Freedom of movement for persons - Access to the profession of lawyer - Possibility of refusing registration in the Bar Council register to nationals of a Member State who have obtained their professional legal qualification in another Member State - Abuse of rights))
   2014/C 315/12
   Language of the case: Italian
   
      Referring court
   
   Consiglio Nazionale Forense
   
      Parties to the main proceedings
   
   
      Applicants: Angelo Alberto Torresi (C-58/13), Pierfrancesco Torresi (C-59/13)
   
      Defendant: Consiglio dell’Ordine degli Avvocati di Macerata
   
      Operative part of the judgment
   
   
               1.
            
            
               Article 3 of Directive 98/5/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council of 16 February 1998 to facilitate practice of the profession of lawyer on a permanent basis in a Member State other than that in which the qualification was obtained must be interpreted as meaning that no abuse can be identified in the fact that a national of a Member State who after successfully obtaining a university degree travels to another Member State in order to acquire there the professional qualification of lawyer and returns to the Member State of which he is a national in order to practise there the profession of lawyer under the professional title obtained in the Member State where that professional qualification was acquired;
            
         
               2.
            
            
               Examination of the second question referred has disclosed nothing capable of affecting the validity of Article 3 of Directive 98/5.
            
         
      (1)  OJ C 147, 25.5.2013.