CELEX: 62018CA0621
Language: en
Date: 2018-12-10 00:00:00
Title: Case C-621/18: Judgment of the Court (Full Chamber) of 10 December 2018 (request for a preliminary ruling from the Court of Session (Scotland), Edinburgh — United Kingdom) — Andy Wightman and Others v Secretary of State for Exiting the European Union (Reference for a preliminary ruling — Article 50 TEU — Notification by a Member State of its intention to withdraw from the European Union — Consequences of the notification — Right of unilateral revocation of the notification — Conditions)

18.2.2019   
            
            
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               Official Journal of the European Union
            
            
               C 65/19
            
         
      Judgment of the Court (Full Chamber) of 10 December 2018 (request for a preliminary ruling from the Court of Session (Scotland), Edinburgh — United Kingdom) — Andy Wightman and Others v Secretary of State for Exiting the European Union
      (Case C-621/18) (1)
      
      ((Reference for a preliminary ruling - Article 50 TEU - Notification by a Member State of its intention to withdraw from the European Union - Consequences of the notification - Right of unilateral revocation of the notification - Conditions))
      (2019/C 65/24)
      Language of the case: English
      
         Referring court
      
      Court of Session (Scotland), Edinburgh
      
         Parties to the main proceedings
      
      
         Applicants: Andy Wightman, Ross Greer, Alyn Smith, David Martin, Catherine Stihler, Jolyon Maugham, Joanna Cherry
      
         Defendant: Secretary of State for Exiting the European Union
      
         Interveners: Chris Leslie, Tom Brake
      
         Operative part of the judgment
      
      Article 50 TEU must be interpreted as meaning that, where a Member State has notified the European Council, in accordance with that article, of its intention to withdraw from the European Union, that article allows that Member State — for as long as a withdrawal agreement concluded between that Member State and the European Union has not entered into force or, if no such agreement has been concluded, for as long as the two-year period laid down in Article 50(3) TEU, possibly extended in accordance with that paragraph, has not expired — to revoke that notification unilaterally, in an unequivocal and unconditional manner, by a notice addressed to the European Council in writing, after the Member State concerned has taken the revocation decision in accordance with its constitutional requirements. The purpose of that revocation is to confirm the EU membership of the Member State concerned under terms that are unchanged as regards its status as a Member State, and that revocation brings the withdrawal procedure to an end.
      
         (1)  OJ C 445, 10.12.2018.