CELEX: 62019TB0734
Language: en
Date: 2021-01-20 00:00:00
Title: Case T-734/19: Order of the General Court of 20 January 2021 — Junqueras i Vies v Parliament (Action for annulment — Institutional law — Member of Parliament — Privileges and immunities — Request for an urgent initiative to confirm the immunity of a Member of the European Parliament — Act not open to challenge — Inadmissibility)

15.3.2021   
            
            
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               Official Journal of the European Union
            
            
               C 88/31
            
         
      Order of the General Court of 20 January 2021 — Junqueras i Vies v Parliament
      (Case T-734/19) (1)
      
      (Action for annulment - Institutional law - Member of Parliament - Privileges and immunities - Request for an urgent initiative to confirm the immunity of a Member of the European Parliament - Act not open to challenge - Inadmissibility)
      (2021/C 88/41)
      Language of the case: Spanish
      
         Parties
      
      
         Applicant: Oriol Junqueras i Vies (Sant Joan de Vilatorrada, Spain) (represented by: A. Van den Eynde Adroer, lawyer)
      
         Defendant: European Parliament (represented by: F. Drexler, N. Görlitz and C. Burgos, acting as Agents)
      
         Re:
      
      Application based on Article 263 TFEU seeking annulment of the letter of 22 August 2019 by which the President of the Parliament rejected the request to take an urgent initiative seeking to confirm the applicant’s immunity, made on 4 July 2019 on his behalf by Ms Riba i Giner, Member of the European Parliament, on the basis of Article 8 of the Parliament’s Rules of Procedure.
      
         Operative part of the judgment
      
      The Court:
      
                  1.
               
               
                  Dismisses the action as inadmissible;
               
            
                  2.
               
               
                  Rules that there is no longer any need to adjudicate on the Kingdom of Spain’s application to intervene;
               
            
                  3.
               
               
                  Orders Mr Oriol Junqueras i Vies to bear his own costs and to pay those incurred by the European Parliament;
               
            
                  4.
               
               
                  Orders the Kingdom of Spain to bear its costs relating to its application to intervene.
               
            
         (1)  OJ C 432, 23.12.2019.