11.1.2014
EN
Official Journal of the European Union
C 9/11
Judgment of the Court (Fifth Chamber) of 7 November 2013 (request for a preliminary ruling from the Corte dei conti, sezione giurisdizionale per la Regione Siciliana — Italy) — Giuseppa Romeo v Regione Siciliana
(Case C-313/12) (1)
(National administrative procedure - Purely internal situation - Administrative acts - Obligation to state reasons - Whether it is possible for failure to state reasons to be remedied during legal proceedings against an administrative act - Interpretation of the second paragraph of Article 296 TFEU and Article 41(2)(c) of the Charter of Fundamental Rights of the European Union - Lack of jurisdiction of the Court)
2014/C 9/15
Language of the case: Italian
Referring court
Corte dei conti, sezione giurisdizionale per la Regione Siciliana
Parties to the main proceedings
Applicant: Giuseppa Romeo
Defendant: Regione Siciliana
Re:
Request for a preliminary ruling — Corte dei conti, sezione giurisdizionale per la Regione Siciliana — Interpretation of Article 296 TFEU and Article 41(2)(c) of the Charter of Fundamental Rights of the European Union — National legislation allowing public authorities not to state the reasons for their acts in certain circumstances or to remedy the failure to state reasons for an administrative act during judicial proceedings brought against that act — National law which makes a renvoi to European Union law in order to regulate purely internal situations — Whether it is possible for the national courts to interpret and apply the provisions and principles of national law in a manner which is at variance with the interpretation provided by the Court of Justice
Operative part of the judgment
1.
The first question referred by the Corte dei conti, sezione giurisdizionale per la Regione Siciliana (Italy), by decision of 19 June 2012 is inadmissible.
2.
The Court of Justice of the European Union has no jurisdiction to answer the second and third questions referred by the Corte dei conti, sezione giurisdizionale per la Regione Siciliana by decision of 19 June 2012.
(1) OJ C 295, 29.9.2012
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