19.7.2021   

EN

Official Journal of the European Union

C 289/3


Judgment of the Court (Grand Chamber) of 3 June 2021 — Hungary v European Parliament

(Case C-650/18) (1)

(Action for annulment - Article 7(1) TEU - European Parliament resolution on a proposal calling on the Council of the European Union to determine the existence of a clear risk of a serious breach of the values on which the European Union is founded - Articles 263 and 269 TFEU - Jurisdiction of the Court - Admissibility of the appeal - Challengeable act - Article 354 TFEU - Rules for counting votes in the Parliament - Rules of Procedure of the Parliament - Rule 178(3) - Concept of ‘votes cast’ - Abstentions - Principles of legal certainty, equal treatment, democracy and sincere cooperation)

(2021/C 289/03)

Language of the case: Hungarian

Parties

Applicant: Hungary (represented: initially by M.Z. Fehér, G. Tornyai and Zs. Wagner, and subsequently by M.Z. Fehér, acting as Agents)

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

Intervener in support of the applicant: Republic of Poland (represented by: B. Majczyna, acting as Agent)

Operative part of the judgment

The Court:

1.

Dismisses the action;

2.

Orders Hungary to bear its own costs and to pay those incurred by the European Parliament;

3.

Orders the Republic of Poland to bear its own costs.


(1)  OJ C 436, 3.12.2018.