CELEX: 62019CA0319
Language: en
Date: 2021-10-28 00:00:00
Title: Case C-319/19: Judgment of the Court (Third Chamber) of 28 October 2021 (request for a preliminary ruling from the Sofiyski gradski sad — Bulgaria) — Komisia za protivodeystvie na koruptsiyata i za otnemane na nezakonno pridobitoto imushtestvo v ZV, AX, ‘Meditsinski tsentar po dermatologia i estetichna meditsina PRIMA DERM’ ООD (Reference for a preliminary ruling — Judicial cooperation in criminal matters — Directive 2014/42/EU — Scope — National legislation providing for the confiscation of illegally obtained assets in the absence of a criminal conviction)

3.1.2022   
            
            
               EN
            
            
               Official Journal of the European Union
            
            
               C 2/2
            
         
      Judgment of the Court (Third Chamber) of 28 October 2021 (request for a preliminary ruling from the Sofiyski gradski sad — Bulgaria) — Komisia za protivodeystvie na koruptsiyata i za otnemane na nezakonno pridobitoto imushtestvo v ZV, AX, ‘Meditsinski tsentar po dermatologia i estetichna meditsina PRIMA DERM’ ООD
      (Case C-319/19) (1)
      
      (Reference for a preliminary ruling - Judicial cooperation in criminal matters - Directive 2014/42/EU - Scope - National legislation providing for the confiscation of illegally obtained assets in the absence of a criminal conviction)
      (2022/C 2/02)
      Language of the case: Bulgarian
      
         Referring court
      
      Sofiyski gradski sad
      
         Parties to the main proceedings
      
      
         Applicant: Komisia za protivodeystvie na koruptsiyata i za otnemane na nezakonno pridobitoto imushtestvo
      
         Defendants: ZV, AX, ‘Meditsinski tsentar po dermatologia i estetichna meditsina PRIMA DERM’ ООD
      
         Operative part of the judgment
      
      Directive 2014/42/EU of the European Parliament and of the Council of 3 April 2014 on the freezing and confiscation of instrumentalities and proceeds of crime in the European Union, must be interpreted as not applying to legislation of a Member State which provides that confiscation of illegally obtained assets is to be ordered by a national court in the context of or following proceedings which do not relate to a finding of one or more criminal offences.
      
         (1)  OJ C 279, 24.8.2020.