CELEX: 62015CA0687
Language: en
Date: 2017-10-25 00:00:00
Title: Case C-687/15: Judgment of the Court (Grand Chamber) of 25 October 2017 — European Commission v Council of the European Union (Action for annulment — Conclusions of the Council of the European Union concerning the World Radiocommunication Conference 2015 of the International Telecommunication Union — Article 218(9) TFEU — Derogation from the prescribed legal form — No indication of the legal basis)

18.12.2017   
            
            
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               Official Journal of the European Union
            
            
               C 437/5
            
         Judgment of the Court (Grand Chamber) of 25 October 2017 — European Commission v Council of the European Union
   (Case C-687/15) (1)
   
   ((Action for annulment - Conclusions of the Council of the European Union concerning the World Radiocommunication Conference 2015 of the International Telecommunication Union - Article 218(9) TFEU - Derogation from the prescribed legal form - No indication of the legal basis))
   (2017/C 437/07)
   Language of the case: English
   
      Parties
   
   
      Applicant: European Commission (represented by: L. Nicolae and F. Erlbacher, acting as Agents)
   
      Defendant: Council of the European Union (represented by: I. Šulce, J.-P. Hix and O. Segnana, acting as Agents)
   
      Interveners in support of the defendant: Czech Republic (represented by: M. Smolek, J. Vláčil and M. Hedvábná, acting as Agents), Federal Republic of Germany (represented by: T. Henze and K. Stranz, acting as Agents), French Republic (represented by: F. Fize, G. de Bergues, B. Fodda and D. Colas, acting as Agents), United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland (represented by: C. Brodie, M. Holt and D. Robertson, acting as Agents, and by J. Holmes, Barrister)
   
      Operative part of the judgment
   
   The Court:
   
               1.
            
            
               Annuls the conclusions of the Council of the European Union, adopted on 26 October 2015, at its 3419th meeting in Luxembourg, on the World Radiocommunication Conference 2015 (WRC-15) of the International Telecommunication Union (ITU);
            
         
               2.
            
            
               Orders the Council of the European Union to pay the costs;
            
         
               3.
            
            
               Orders the Czech Republic, the Federal Republic of Germany, the French Republic and the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland to bear their own costs.
            
         
      (1)  OJ C 68, 22.2.2016.