CELEX: 62018CA0457
Language: en
Date: 2020-01-31 00:00:00
Title: Case C-457/18: Judgment of the Court (Grand Chamber) of 31 January 2020 — Republic of Slovenia v Republic of Croatia (Failure of a Member State to fulfil obligations — Article 259 TFEU — Jurisdiction of the Court — Determination of the common border between two Member States — Border dispute between the Republic of Croatia and the Republic of Slovenia — Arbitration agreement — Arbitration proceedings — Notification by the Republic of Croatia of its decision to terminate the agreement because of an irregularity alleged by it to have been committed by a member of the arbitral tribunal — Arbitration award made by the arbitral tribunal — Alleged failure by the Republic of Croatia to observe the arbitration agreement and the border established by the arbitration award — Principle of sincere cooperation — Request that a document be removed from the case file — Protection of legal advice)

27.4.2020   
            
            
               EN
            
            
               Official Journal of the European Union
            
            
               C 137/13
            
         
      Judgment of the Court (Grand Chamber) of 31 January 2020 — Republic of Slovenia v Republic of Croatia
      (Case C-457/18) (1)
      
      (Failure of a Member State to fulfil obligations - Article 259 TFEU - Jurisdiction of the Court - Determination of the common border between two Member States - Border dispute between the Republic of Croatia and the Republic of Slovenia - Arbitration agreement - Arbitration proceedings - Notification by the Republic of Croatia of its decision to terminate the agreement because of an irregularity alleged by it to have been committed by a member of the arbitral tribunal - Arbitration award made by the arbitral tribunal - Alleged failure by the Republic of Croatia to observe the arbitration agreement and the border established by the arbitration award - Principle of sincere cooperation - Request that a document be removed from the case file - Protection of legal advice)
      (2020/C 137/16)
      Language of the case: Croatian
      
         Parties
      
      
         Applicant: Republic of Slovenia (represented by: M. Menard, acting as Agent, and J.-M. Thouvenin, avocat)
      
         Defendant: Republic of Croatia (represented by: G. Vidović Mesarek, acting as Agent, and J. Stratford QC)
      
         Operative part of the judgment
      
      The Court:
      
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                  Orders that the internal working document of the European Commission relating to the opinion of its Legal Service, which appears at pages 38 to 45 of Annex C.2 to the Republic of Slovenia’s response to the objection of inadmissibility, be removed from the file for Case C-457/18;
               
            
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                  Declares that the Court of Justice of the European Union lacks jurisdiction to rule on the Republic of Slovenia’s action, brought on the basis of Article 259 TFEU, in Case C-457/18;
               
            
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                  Orders the Republic of Slovenia to pay the costs.
               
            
         (1)  OJ C 399, 5.11.2018.