13.2.2017

Official Journal of the European Union

C 46/18

(Case C-636/16)

(2017/C 046/20)

Language of the case: Spanish

Referring court

Juzgado de lo Contencioso-Administrativo of Pamplona

Parties to the main proceedings

Applicant: Wilber López Pastuzano

Defendant: Delegación del Gobierno de Navarra

Question referred

Must Article 12 of Council Directive 2003/109/EC (1) of 25 November [2003] concerning the status of third-country nationals who are long-term residents be interpreted as precluding national legislation, such as that issue in the main proceedings, and the case-law interpreting it, which does not provide for the application of the requirements of protection against the expulsion of a long-term resident foreign national to all administrative expulsion decisions regardless of the legal nature or type thereof, but instead restricts the application of those requirements to a specific type of expulsion?

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(1) OJ 2004 L 16, p. 44.