CELEX: 62015TA0452
Language: en
Date: 2017-11-20 00:00:00
Title: Case T-452/15: Judgment of the General Court of 20 November 2017 — Petrov and Others v Parliament (Member of the European Parliament — Refusal of access to the buildings of the Parliament — Third-country national — Article 21 of the Charter of Fundamental Rights — Discrimination on grounds of ethnic origin — Discrimination on grounds of nationality — Admissibility of a plea — Discrimination on grounds of political opinions — Equal treatment — Misuse of powers)

15.1.2018   
            
            
               EN
            
            
               Official Journal of the European Union
            
            
               C 13/12
            
         Judgment of the General Court of 20 November 2017 — Petrov and Others v Parliament
   (Case T-452/15) (1)
   
   ((Member of the European Parliament - Refusal of access to the buildings of the Parliament - Third-country national - Article 21 of the Charter of Fundamental Rights - Discrimination on grounds of ethnic origin - Discrimination on grounds of nationality - Admissibility of a plea - Discrimination on grounds of political opinions - Equal treatment - Misuse of powers))
   (2018/C 013/21)
   Language of the case: German
   
      Parties
   
   
      Applicants: Andrei Petrov (Saint Petersburg, Russia), Fedor Biryukov, (Moscow, Russia) and Alexander Sotnichenko (Saint Petersburg) (represented by: P. Richter, lawyer)
   
      Defendant: European Parliament (represented by: N. Görlitz and M. Windisch, acting as Agents)
   
      Re:
   
   Action under Article 263 TFEU seeking annulment of the Parliament’s decision of 16 June 2015 refusing the applicants access to its premises.
   
      Operative part of the judgment
   
   The Court:
   
               1.
            
            
               Dismisses the action;
            
         
               2.
            
            
               Orders Messrs Andrei Petrov, Fedor Biryukovand and Alexander Sotnichenko to bear their own costs and to pay those incurred by the European Parliament.
            
         
      (1)  OJ C 363, 3.11.2015.