15.2.2021

Official Journal of the European Union

C 53/16

(Case C-409/20)

(2021/C 53/20)

Language of the case: Spanish

Referring court

Parties to the main proceedings

Applicant: UN

Defendant: Subdelegación del Gobierno en Pontevedra

Questions referred

Must Directive 2008/115/EC (1) of the European Parliament and of the Council of 16 December 2008 on common standards and procedures in Member States for returning illegally staying third-country nationals (Articles 4(3), 6(1), 6(5) and 7(1)) be interpreted as meaning that it precludes national legislation (Articles 53(1)(a) and 55(1)(b), Article 57 and Article 28(3)(c) of Ley Orgánica 4/2000, de 11 de enero, sobre derechos y libertades de los extranjeros en España y su integración social (Basic Law 4/2000 of 11 January 2000 on the rights and freedoms of foreign nationals in Spain and their social integration)) that penalises illegally staying foreign nationals in the absence of aggravating circumstances, initially, with a fine together with a request to return voluntarily to the country of origin followed, thereafter, by the penalty of removal if the foreign national neither regularises his situation nor returns voluntarily to his country?

(1) OJ 2008 L 348, p. 98.