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18.2.2019 |
EN |
Official Journal of the European Union |
C 65/14 |
Judgment of the Court (Grand Chamber) of 11 December 2018 (request for a preliminary ruling from the Bundesverfassungsgericht — Germany) — proceedings brought by Heinrich Weiss and Others
(Case C-493/17) (1)
((Reference for a preliminary ruling - Economic and monetary policy - Decision (EU) 2015/774 of the European Central Bank - Validity - Secondary markets public sector asset purchase programme - Articles 119 and 127 TFEU - Powers of the ECB and the European System of Central Banks - Maintenance of price stability - Proportionality - Article 123 TFEU - Prohibition of monetary financing of Member States in the euro area))
(2019/C 65/16)
Language of the case: German
Referring court
Bundesverfassungsgericht
Parties to the main proceedings
Applicants: Heinrich Weiss, Jürgen Heraeus, Patrick Adenauer, Bernd Lucke, Hans-Olaf Henkel, Joachim Starbatty, Bernd Kölmel, Ulrike Trebesius, Peter Gauweiler, Johann Heinrich von Stein, Gunnar Heinsohn, Otto Michels, Reinhold von Eben-Worlée, Michael Göde, Dagmar Metzger, Karl-Heinz Hauptmann, Stefan Städter, Markus C. Kerber
Interested parties: Bundesregierung, Bundestag, Deutsche Bundesbank
Operative part of the judgment
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1. |
Consideration of the first to fourth questions referred for a preliminary ruling has disclosed no factor of such a kind as to affect the validity of Decision (EU) 2015/774 of the European Central Bank of 4 March 2015 on a secondary markets public sector asset purchase programme, as amended by Decision (EU) 2017/100 of the European Central Bank of 11 January 2017. |
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2. |
The fifth question is inadmissible. |