Procedural Primacy and Effective Judicial Protection: A Trilogue
| Date | 01 April 2016 |
| DOI | 10.1177/1023263X1602300206 |
| Published date | 01 April 2016 |
| Subject Matter | Case Notes |
23 MJ 2 (2016) 317
CASE NOTES
PROCEDURAL PRIMACY AND
EFFECTIVE JUDICIAL PROTECTION
A Trilogue
Case C-112/13 A v. B and Others, EU:C:2014:2195
D D*
§1. IN TRODUC T ION
Despite its rather low-key delivery by a chamber of ve, the judgment in A v. B and
Others1 has become the focus of scholarly attention.2 An attention well deserved since
the Court addresse s two procedural issues of prime importance within their respective
elds. First, it clari es that under Regulation No 44/2001
3 acts of a court-appointed
representative cannot confer jurisdic tion on a national court for an action brought in
absentia. Second, it con r ms that the compatibility of domestic legislation w ith Charter
rights may be examined in an interlocutory procedure before a national constitutional
court as long as th is does not interfere with the requirements of Art icle267 TFEU.
* Legal secret ary, Court of Justice of the Europ ean Union. e views expresse d are those of the author
alone who has not been i nvolved in the case.
1 Case C-112/13 A v. B and Others, EU:C:2014:2195.
2 See M. Kram me, ‘Kooperation, nein d anke! – der EuGH unter mauert seinen Fü hrungsan spruch
gegenüber den national en Verfassungsgerichten’, Zeitschri für G emeinscha sprivatrecht (2014),
p.355–358; T. Öhlinger, ‘Verfassungsrecht: Vorlagep icht bei Verstoß eines nation alen Gesetzes gegen
Art. Artikel47 GRCh’, Europäi sche Zeitschri für Wirtscha srecht (2014), p. 955–956; G. Muz ak,
‘Wer darf die Gru ndrechtechar ta prüfen: EuGH oder Vf GH? Besprechung der Ent scheidung EuGH
11.9.2 014, C-112/13 ’, Ecolex (2014), p.1113–1114; G. Martinic o, ‘Il caso A. c. B. e i l suo impatto sul
rapporto fra Cor ti: un dir itto per tre giud ici‘, Quaderni costituzionali (2014), p. 950–953; D. Paris,
‘Constitutiona l Courts as Gu ardians of EU Fund amental Ri ghts?’, 11European Constitutional Law
Review (2015), p.389–407; M. de Visser, ‘Juggli ng centralize d constitutional re view and EU primac y in
the domestic enforc ement of the Charter: A. v. B.’, 52 CMLR (2015), p.1309–1337.
3 Regulation (E C) No 44/2001 of the Council of 2 2December 2000 on Juri sdiction and the Reco gnition
and Enforcement of Judg ments in Civil a nd Commercial Mat ters, [2001] OJ L 12/1. e entry into
force , in Ja nuar y 2015 of R egu lation (EU) No 1215/2012 o f the E urope an Par liam ent and of the C ounc il
of 12December 2 012 on jurisdiction and the recog nition and enforcement of judgments in c ivil and
commercial mat ters, [2012] OJ L 351/1, has no substanti ve impact on the issues di scussed in this not e.
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