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Document 62022CA0760

Case C-760/22, FP and Others (Trial by videoconference): Judgment of the Court (First Chamber) of 4 July 2024 (request for a preliminary ruling from the Sofiyski gradski sad – Bulgaria) – Criminal proceedings against FP, QV, IN, YL, VD, JF, OL (Reference for a preliminary ruling – Judicial cooperation in criminal matters – Directive (EU) 2016/343 – Right to be present at the trial – Possibility for an accused person to participate in the hearings in his or her trial by videoconference)

OJ C, C/2024/4932, 19.8.2024, ELI: http://data.europa.eu/eli/C/2024/4932/oj (BG, ES, CS, DA, DE, ET, EL, EN, FR, GA, HR, IT, LV, LT, HU, MT, NL, PL, PT, RO, SK, SL, FI, SV)

ELI: http://data.europa.eu/eli/C/2024/4932/oj

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C/2024/4932

19.8.2024

Judgment of the Court (First Chamber) of 4 July 2024 (request for a preliminary ruling from the Sofiyski gradski sad – Bulgaria) – Criminal proceedings against FP, QV, IN, YL, VD, JF, OL

(Case C-760/22,  (1) FP and Others (Trial by videoconference))

(Reference for a preliminary ruling - Judicial cooperation in criminal matters - Directive (EU) 2016/343 - Right to be present at the trial - Possibility for an accused person to participate in the hearings in his or her trial by videoconference)

(C/2024/4932)

Language of the case: Bulgarian

Referring court

Sofiyski gradski sad

Parties in the main proceedings

FP, QV, IN, YL, VD, JF, OL

Intervening party: Sofiyska gradska prokuratura

Operative part of the judgment

Article 8(1) of Directive (EU) 2016/343 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 9 March 2016 on the strengthening of certain aspects of the presumption of innocence and of the right to be present at the trial in criminal proceedings must be interpreted as not precluding an accused person from being able, at his or her express request, to participate in the hearings in his or her trial by videoconference, provided that the right to a fair trial is guaranteed.


(1)   OJ C 71, 27.2.2023.


ELI: http://data.europa.eu/eli/C/2024/4932/oj

ISSN 1977-091X (electronic edition)


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