CELEX: 62018CA0634
Language: en
Date: 2020-06-11 00:00:00
Title: Case C-634/18: Judgment of the Court (First Chamber) of 11 June 2020 (request for a preliminary ruling from the Sąd Rejonowy w Słupsku — Poland) — Criminal proceedings against JI (Reference for a preliminary ruling — Judicial cooperation in criminal matters — Framework Decision 2004/757/JHA — Minimum provisions on the constituent elements of criminal acts and penalties involving illicit drug trafficking — Article 2(1)(c) — Article 4(2)(a) — Concept of ‘large quantities of drugs’ — Charter of Fundamental Rights of the European Union — Equal treatment — Articles 20 and 21 — Principle of legality of criminal offences and penalties — Article 49)

17.8.2020   
            
            
               EN
            
            
               Official Journal of the European Union
            
            
               C 271/5
            
         
      Judgment of the Court (First Chamber) of 11 June 2020 (request for a preliminary ruling from the Sąd Rejonowy w Słupsku — Poland) — Criminal proceedings against JI
      (Case C-634/18) (1)
      
      (Reference for a preliminary ruling - Judicial cooperation in criminal matters - Framework Decision 2004/757/JHA - Minimum provisions on the constituent elements of criminal acts and penalties involving illicit drug trafficking - Article 2(1)(c) - Article 4(2)(a) - Concept of ‘large quantities of drugs’ - Charter of Fundamental Rights of the European Union - Equal treatment - Articles 20 and 21 - Principle of legality of criminal offences and penalties - Article 49)
      (2020/C 271/06)
      Language of the case: Polish
      
         Referring court
      
      Sąd Rejonowy w Słupsku
      
         Party in the main criminal proceedings
      
      JI
      
         Intervener: Prokuratura Rejonowa w Słupsku
      
         Operative part of the judgment
      
      Article 4(2)(a) of Council Framework Decision 2004/757/JHA of 25 October 2004 laying down minimum provisions on the constituent elements of criminal acts and penalties in the field of illicit drug trafficking, read in conjunction with Article 2(1)(c) thereof, and Articles 20, 21 and 49 of the Charter of Fundamental Rights of the European Union, must be interpreted as not precluding a Member State from classifying as a criminal offence the possession of a significant quantity of narcotic drugs or psychotropic substances both for personal consumption and for the purposes of illicit drug trafficking, while leaving the interpretation of the concept of ‘significant quantity of narcotic drugs or psychotropic substances’ to the discretion of the national courts, on a case-by-case basis, provided that that interpretation is reasonably foreseeable.
      
         (1)  OJ C 65, 18.2.2019.