CELEX: 62020TB0032
Language: en
Date: 2020-11-19 00:00:00
Title: Case T-32/20: Judgment of the General Court of 19 November 2020 — Buxadé Villalba and Others v Parliament (Action for annulment — Law governing the institutions — Member of the Parliament — Acknowledgement by the Parliament of the election as Members of the European Parliament of two Spanish elected representatives — Locus standi of three other Members of the European Parliament — Lack of individual concern — Application for a declaratory judgment — Action partly inadmissible and partly brought before a court that is manifestly incompetent to hear it)

18.1.2021   
            
            
               EN
            
            
               Official Journal of the European Union
            
            
               C 19/49
            
         
      Judgment of the General Court of 19 November 2020 — Buxadé Villalba and Others v Parliament
      (Case T-32/20) (1)
      
      (Action for annulment - Law governing the institutions - Member of the Parliament - Acknowledgement by the Parliament of the election as Members of the European Parliament of two Spanish elected representatives - Locus standi of three other Members of the European Parliament - Lack of individual concern - Application for a declaratory judgment - Action partly inadmissible and partly brought before a court that is manifestly incompetent to hear it)
      (2021/C 19/53)
      Language of the case: Spanish
      
         Parties
      
      
         Applicants: Jorge Buxadé Villalba (Madrid, Spain) María Esperanza Araceli Aguilar Pinar (Madrid), Hermann Tertsch Del Valle-Lersundi (Madrid) (represented by: M. Castro Fuertes, lawyer)
      
         Defendant: European Parliament (represented by: N. Görlitz and C. Burgos, acting as Agents)
      
         Re:
      
      Application under Article 263 TFEU seeking the annulment of the Parliament’s acknowledgment of the election as Members of the European Parliament of Mr Carles Puigdemont i Casamajó and Mr Antoni Comín i Oliveres, announced by the President of the Parliament at the plenary sitting of 13 January 2020.
      
         Operative part of the judgment
      
      The Court:
      
                  1.
               
               
                  Dismisses the action as partly inadmissible and as partly brought before a court that is manifestly incompetent to hear it;
               
            
                  2.
               
               
                  Declares that there is no longer any need to adjudicate on the applications to intervene of the Kingdom of Spain and of Mr Carles Puigdemont i Casamajó and Mr Antoni Comín i Oliveres;
               
            
                  3.
               
               
                  Orders Mr Jorge Buxadé Villalba, Mr Hermann Tertsch Del Valle-Lersundi and Ms María Esperanza Araceli Aguilar Pinar to bear their own costs and to pay those incurred by the European Parliament;
               
            
                  4.
               
               
                  Orders the Kingdom of Spain, Mr Puigdemont i Casamajó and Mr Comín i Oliveres to bear the costs relating to their respective applications to intervene.
               
            
         (1)  OJ C 77, 9.3.2020.