CELEX: 62019TN0183
Language: en
Date: 2019-03-29 00:00:00
Title: Case T-183/19: Action brought on 29 March 2019 — Jalkh v Parliament

27.5.2019   
            
            
               EN
            
            
               Official Journal of the European Union
            
            
               C 182/36
            
         
      Action brought on 29 March 2019 — Jalkh v Parliament
      (Case T-183/19)
      (2019/C 182/40)
      Language of the case: French
      
         Parties
      
      
         Applicant: Jean-François Jalkh (Gretz-Armainvilliers, France) (represented by: F. Wagner, lawyer)
      
         Defendant: European Parliament
      
         Form of order sought
      
      The applicant claims that the Court should:
      
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                  annul the European Parliament’s decision of 31 January 2019 amending that institution’s Rules of Procedure;
               
            
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                  order the European Parliament to pay all the costs of the proceedings.
               
            
         Pleas in law and main arguments
      
      In support of the action, the applicant relies on five pleas in law.
      
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                  First plea in law, alleging infringement of the Charter of Fundamental Rights of the European Union on the ground that the amendment at issue discriminates on the basis of language, which constitutes a failure to observe the principle of linguistic diversity and discourages the French member of the European Parliament from using his mother tongue.
               
            
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                  Second plea in law, alleging infringement of Article 14 of the Convention for the Protection of Human Rights and Fundamental Freedoms as the European Parliament’s new Rules of Procedure discriminate against the applicant, who is a French speaker.
               
            
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                  Third plea in law, alleging infringement of the Treaty on European Union. In this regard, the applicant claims that, by discriminating against the French language, the European Parliament’s new Rules of Procedure undermine cultural and linguistic diversity within that institution.
               
            
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                  Fourth plea in law, alleging infringement of Article 18 of the Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union which guarantees the observance of the principle of multilingualism and, therefore, the use of the French language.
               
            
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                  Fifth plea in law, alleging infringement of Council Regulation No 1 of 15 April 1958 determining the languages to be used by the European Economic Community (OJ, English Special Edition 1952-1958, p. 59).