27.5.2019

EN

Official Journal of the European Union

C 182/22

(Case C-218/19)

(2019/C 182/27)

Language of the case: French

Referring court

Parties to the main proceedings

Applicant: XR

Defendants: Conseil de l’ordre des avocats au barreau de Paris, Bâtonnier de l’ordre des avocats au barreau de Paris, Procureur général près la cour d’appel de Paris

Questions referred

1.Does the principle that the Treaty establishing the European Economic Community, now, after amendment, the Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union, has created its own legal system, which is integrated into the legal systems of the Member States and which their courts are bound to apply, preclude national legislation which makes the grant of an exemption from the training and diploma requirements laid down, in principle, for entry to the profession of lawyer, dependent on the requirement of sufficient knowledge, on the part of the person requesting exemption, of national law of French origin, so that similar knowledge of the law of the European Union alone is not taken into account?

2.Do Articles 45 and 49 of the Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union preclude national legislation which restricts an exemption from the training and diploma requirements laid down, in principle, for entry to the profession of lawyer, to certain members of the civil service of the same Member State who have performed legal work in that capacity, in France, in an administration or a public service or an international organisation, and which excludes from the scope of that exemption members or former members of the European civil service who have performed legal work in that capacity, in one or more fields of the law of the European Union, within the European Commission?