CELEX: 62008CN0535
Language: en
Date: 2008-12-03 00:00:00
Title: Case C-535/08: Reference for a preliminary ruling from the Tribunale Amministrativo Regionale per la Sicilia (Italy) lodged on 3 December 2008 — Maria Catena Rita Pignatoro v Ufficio Centrale Circoscrizionale c/o Tribunale di Catania and Others

7.2.2009   
            
            
               EN
            
            
               Official Journal of the European Union
            
            
               C 32/22
            
         Reference for a preliminary ruling from the Tribunale Amministrativo Regionale per la Sicilia (Italy) lodged on 3 December 2008 — Maria Catena Rita Pignatoro v Ufficio Centrale Circoscrizionale c/o Tribunale di Catania and Others
   (Case C-535/08)
   (2009/C 32/38)
   Language of the case: Italian
   Referring court
   Tribunale Amministrativo Regionale per la Sicilia
   Parties to the main proceedings
   
      Applicant: Maria Catena Rita Pignatoro
   
      Defendants: Ufficio Centrale Circoscrizionale c/o Tribunale di Catania and Others
   Questions referred
   
               1.
            
            
               Whether or not Article 6 of the EU Treaty, Article 3 of the First Additional Protocol to the ECHR, implemented by Law No 848 of 1955, Article 2 of Protocol No 4 to the ECHR, and Article 25 of the International Covenant for Civil and Political Rights, implemented by Law No 881 of 1977, are to be interpreted as compatible with the regional rules laid down in Articles 1c, 14a(13)(c), 15(3)(d), 16a(7)(a) and 17b(4)(b) and (c) of Regional Law No 29 of 1951, which exclude citizens who were not resident in Sicily at the time at which nominations were put forward from eligibility for election to the Sicilian Regional Assembly.
            
         
               2.
            
            
               Whether Articles 17 EC and 18 EC (formerly Article 8A of the EC Treaty) preclude or are compatible with the regional rules referred to in paragraph 4.1.