Language of document : ECLI:EU:C:2018:1050

ORDER OF THE PRESIDENT OF THE COURT

21 December 2018 (*)

(Removal from the Register)

In Case C-685/18,

REQUEST for a preliminary ruling under Article 267 TFEU from the High Court (Ireland), made by decision of 1 November 2018, received at the Court on 7 November 2018, in the proceedings

Minister for Justice and Equality

v

ND,

THE PRESIDENT OF THE COURT,

after hearing the Advocate General, E. Tanchev,

makes the following

Order

1        By order of 14 December 2018, received at the Court Registry on 18 December 2018, the High Court (Ireland) informed the Court that it had decided to withdraw its request for a preliminary ruling.

2        In those circumstances, it is appropriate, pursuant to Article 100 of the Rules of Procedure of the Court of Justice, to order that the present case be removed from the Register of the Court.

3        Since these proceedings are, for the parties to the main proceedings, a step in the action pending before the national court, the decision on costs is a matter for that court.

On those grounds, the President of the Court hereby orders:

Case C-685/18 is removed from the Register of the Court.

Luxembourg, 21 December 2018.

A. Calot Escobar

 

      K. Lenaerts

Registrar

 

President


* Language of the case: English.