CELEX: 62019CN0471
Language: en
Date: 2019-06-20 00:00:00
Title: Case C-471/19: Request for a preliminary ruling from the Grondwettelijk Hof (Belgium) lodged on 20 June 2019 — Middlegate Europe NV v Ministerraad

14.10.2019   
            
            
               EN
            
            
               Official Journal of the European Union
            
            
               C 348/3
            
         
      Request for a preliminary ruling from the Grondwettelijk Hof (Belgium) lodged on 20 June 2019 — Middlegate Europe NV v Ministerraad
      (Case C-471/19)
      (2019/C 348/04)
      Language of the case: Dutch
      
         Referring court
      
      Grondwettelijk Hof
      
         Parties to the main proceedings
      
      
         Appellant: Middlegate Europe NV
      
         Respondent: Ministerraad
      
         Questions referred
      
      
                  1.
               
               
                  Should Article 49 of the Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union, whether or not read in conjunction with Article 56 of that Treaty, with Articles 15 and 16 of the Charter of Fundamental Rights of the European Union and with the principle of equality, be interpreted as precluding national legislative provisions that oblige persons or undertakings which, in a Belgian port area, wish to engage in dock-work activities within the meaning of the wet van 8 juni 1972 betreffende de havenarbeid (Law of 8 June 1972 organising dock work) — including activities which, strictly speaking, are unrelated to the loading and unloading of ships — to have recourse solely to recognised dockers?
               
            
                  2.
               
               
                  If the first question is answered in the affirmative, may the Grondwettelijk Hof provisionally maintain the effects of Articles 1 and 2 of the wet van 8 juni 1972 betreffende de havenarbeid in order to prevent legal uncertainty and social discontent and to enable the legislature to bring those provisions into line with the obligations arising from EU law?