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Document 62008CO0535
Order of the Court (Sixth Chamber) of 26 March 2009. # Maria Catena Rita Pignataro v Ufficio centrale circoscrizionale presso il Tribunale di Catania and Others. # Reference for a preliminary ruling: Tribunale amministrativo regionale per la Sicilia - Italy. # Eligibility requirements for regional elections - Requirement of residence in the region concerned - Articles 17 EC and 18 EC - Fundamental rights - No link with Community law - Court clearly lacking jurisdiction. # Case C-535/08.
Rješenje Suda (šesto vijeće) od 26. ožujka 2009.
Maria Catena Rita Pignataro protiv Ufficio centrale circoscrizionale presso il Tribunale di Catania i dr.
Zahtjev za prethodnu odluku: Tribunale amministrativo regionale per la Sicilia - Italija.
Članci 17. i 18. UEZ-a.
Predmet C-535/08.
Rješenje Suda (šesto vijeće) od 26. ožujka 2009.
Maria Catena Rita Pignataro protiv Ufficio centrale circoscrizionale presso il Tribunale di Catania i dr.
Zahtjev za prethodnu odluku: Tribunale amministrativo regionale per la Sicilia - Italija.
Članci 17. i 18. UEZ-a.
Predmet C-535/08.
ECLI identifier: ECLI:EU:C:2009:204
Order of the Court (Sixth Chamber) of 26 March 2009 – Pignataro v Ufficio centrale circoscrizionale presso il Tribunale di Catania and Others
(Case C‑535/08)
Eligibility requirements for regional elections – Requirement of residence in the region concerned – Articles 17 EC and 18 EC – Fundamental rights – No link with Community law – Court clearly lacking jurisdiction
1. European Union citizenship – Treaty provisions – Substantive scope – Exclusion of purely internal situations (Arts 17 EC and 18 EC) (see paras 14-18, operative part 1)
2. Preliminary rulings – Jurisdiction of the Court – Limits – Question referred in the course of a dispute relating to the application of a national provision which is not within the scope of Community law – Excluded (Art. 234 EC) (see paras 22-24, operative part 2)
Re:
Reference for a preliminary ruling – Tribunale Amministrativo Regionale per la Sicilia – Interpretation of Article 6 EU, Article 3 of the First Additional Protocol and Article 2 of the Fourth Additional Protocol to the European Convention on Human Rights and Article 25 of the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights – Interpretation of Articles 17 EC and 18 EC – Compatibility of regional legislation restricting the right of an Italian national to be nominated for election on the basis of a requirement of residence in the region. |
Operative part:
1. |
Articles 17 EC and 18 EC do not preclude national legislation which, in a situation such as that at issue in the main proceedings, includes among the requirements for eligibility for election to a regional assembly, the obligation to reside in the region concerned at the time when nominations are put forward. |
2. |
The Court of Justice of the European Communities clearly does not have jurisdiction to reply to the first question referred by the Tribunale amministrativo regionale per la Sicilia. |