5.9.2022

Official Journal of the European Union

C 340/27

(Case T-388/19) (*)

(Law governing the institutions - Members of the European Parliament - Refusal of the President of the Parliament to recognise the status of Member of the European Parliament and the associated rights of elected candidates - Action for annulment - Act not open to challenge - Inadmissibility)

(2022/C 340/35)

Language of the case: English

Parties

Applicants: Carles Puigdemont i Casamajó (Waterloo, Belgium), Antoni Comín i Oliveres (Waterloo) (represented by: P. Bekaert, G. Boye, S. Bekaert, lawyers, and by B. Emmerson QC)

Defendant: European Parliament (represented by: N. Görlitz, T. Lukácsi and C. Burgos, acting as Agents)

Intervener in support of the defendant: Kingdom of Spain (represented by: A. Gavela Llopis, acting as Agent)

Re:

By their action based on Article 263 TFEU, the applicants seek the annulment of, first, the Instruction of 29 May 2019 of the President of the European Parliament refusing them access to the special welcome and assistance service offered to incoming Members of the European Parliament and the grant of temporary accreditation and, second, the refusal of the President of the Parliament to recognise their status as Members of the European Parliament, contained in the letter of 27 June 2019.

Operative part of the judgment

The Court:

1.Dismisses the action as inadmissible;

2.Orders Mr Carles Puigdemont i Casamajó and Mr Antoni Comín i Oliveres to bear their own costs and to pay those incurred by the European Parliament, including the costs in Cases T-388/19 R, C-646/19 P(R) and T-388/19 R-RENV;

3.Orders the Kingdom of Spain to bear its own costs.

(*)

Language of the case: English

(1) OJ C 270, 12.8.2019.

ECLI:EU:C:2022:140