CELEX: 62013CN0065
Language: en
Date: 2013-02-07 00:00:00
Title: Case C-65/13: Action brought on 7 February 2013 — European Parliament v European Commission

13.4.2013   
            
            
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               Official Journal of the European Union
            
            
               C 108/17
            
         Action brought on 7 February 2013 — European Parliament v European Commission
   (Case C-65/13)
   2013/C 108/36
   Language of the case: French
   
      Parties
   
   
      Applicant: European Parliament (represented by: A. Tamás and J. Rodrigues, acting as Agents)
   
      Defendant: European Commission
   
      Form of order sought
   
   
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               Annul Commission Implementing Decision [2012/733/EU] of 26 November 2013 implementing Regulation (EU) No 492/2011 of the European Parliament and of the Council as regards the clearance of vacancies and applications for employment and the re-establishment of EURES;
            
         
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               order the European Commission to pay the costs.
            
         
      Pleas in law and main arguments
   
   In support of its action for annulment, the European Parliament raises a single plea in law, alleging infringement of Article 38 of Regulation (EU) No 492/2011 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 5 April 2011 on freedom of movement for workers within the Union. (1) By adopting the contested decision, the Commission has misused the powers conferred upon it by the European Union legislature.
   Article 38 of that regulation confers only implementing powers on the Commission, the limits of which are set out in Article 291 TFEU. In the view of the Parliament, that article must be interpreted as meaning that it precludes the adoption of acts of general application which supplement certain non-essential elements of the legislative act. Only legislative acts or delegated acts within the meaning of Article 290 TFEU may supplement non-essential elements of a basic act.
   The act adopted by the Commission, being an implementing act within the meaning of Article 291 TFEU, also supplements certain non-essential elements of Regulation (EU) No 492/2011. Accordingly, the Parliament submits that, if it is necessary to supplement non-essential elements of Regulation (EU) No 492/2011, the Commission, in the absence of powers to adopt delegated acts within the meaning of Article 290 TFEU, ought to have made a proposal to the legislature supplementing or amending the basic act.
   
      (1)  Regulation (EU) No 492/2011 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 5 April 2011 on freedom of movement for workers within the Union (OJ 2011 L 141, p. 1).