CELEX: 62019CN0584
Language: en
Date: 2019-08-02 00:00:00
Title: Case C-584/19: Request for a preliminary ruling from the Landesgericht für Strafsachen Wien (Austria) lodged on 2 August 2019 — Criminal proceedings against A***** and further unknown perpetrators

11.11.2019   
            
            
               EN
            
            
               Official Journal of the European Union
            
            
               C 383/40
            
         
      Request for a preliminary ruling from the Landesgericht für Strafsachen Wien (Austria) lodged on 2 August 2019 — Criminal proceedings against A***** and further unknown perpetrators
      (Case C-584/19)
      (2019/C 383/48)
      Language of the case: German
      
         Referring court
      
      Landesgericht für Strafsachen Wien
      
         Parties to the main proceedings
      
      
         Applicant: Staatsanwaltschaft Wien
      
         Accused: A***** and further unknown perpetrators
      
         Other parties: Staatsanwaltschaft Hamburg
      
         Question referred
      
      Are the terms ‘judicial authority’ within the meaning of Article 1(1) of Directive 2014/41/EU of the European Parliament and of the Council of 3 April 2014 regarding the European Investigation Order (1) in criminal matters and ‘public prosecutor’ within the meaning of Article 2(c)(i) of the aforementioned Directive to be interpreted as also including the public prosecutor’s offices of a Member State which are exposed to the risk of being directly or indirectly subject to orders or individual instructions from the executive, such as the Senator of Justice in Hamburg, in the context of the adoption of a decision on the issuance of a European investigation order?
      
         (1)  OJ 2014 L 130, p. 1.