CELEX: 62013CA0650
Language: en
Date: 2015-10-06 00:00:00
Title: Case C-650/13: Judgment of the Court (Grand Chamber) of 6 October 2015 (request for a preliminary ruling from the Tribunal d’instance de Bordeaux — France) — Thierry Delvigne v Commune de Lesparre-Médoc, Préfet de la Gironde (Reference for a preliminary ruling — Charter of Fundamental Rights of the European Union — Articles 39 and 49 — European Parliament — Elections — Right to vote — Citizenship of the European Union — Retroactive effect of the more lenient criminal law — National legislation providing for the deprivation of the right to vote in the case of a criminal conviction by a final judgment delivered before 1 March 1994)

23.11.2015   
            
            
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               Official Journal of the European Union
            
            
               C 389/3
            
         Judgment of the Court (Grand Chamber) of 6 October 2015 (request for a preliminary ruling from the Tribunal d’instance de Bordeaux — France) — Thierry Delvigne v Commune de Lesparre-Médoc, Préfet de la Gironde
   (Case C-650/13) (1)
   
   ((Reference for a preliminary ruling - Charter of Fundamental Rights of the European Union - Articles 39 and 49 - European Parliament - Elections - Right to vote - Citizenship of the European Union - Retroactive effect of the more lenient criminal law - National legislation providing for the deprivation of the right to vote in the case of a criminal conviction by a final judgment delivered before 1 March 1994))
   (2015/C 389/03)
   Language of the case: French
   
      Referring court
   
   Tribunal d’instance de Bordeaux
   
      Parties to the main proceedings
   
   
      Applicant: Thierry Delvigne
   
      Defendants: Commune de Lesparre-Médoc, Préfet de la Gironde
   
      Operative part of the judgment
   
   Article 39(2) and the last sentence of Article 49(1) of the Charter of Fundamental Rights of the European Union must be interpreted as not precluding legislation of a Member State, such as that at issue in the main proceedings, which excludes, by operation of law, from those entitled to vote in elections to the European Parliament persons who, like the applicant in the main proceedings, were convicted of a serious crime and whose conviction became final before 1 March 1994.
   
      (1)  OJ C 129, 28.4.2014.