Judgment of the Court (Grand Chamber) of 5 May 2015

Kingdom of Spain v European Parliament and Council of the European Union

Action for annulment — Implementing enhanced cooperation — Creation of unitary patent protection — Regulation (EU) No 1257/2012 — First paragraph of Article 118 TFEU — Legal basis — Article 291 TFEU — Delegation of powers to bodies outside the European Union — Principles of autonomy and uniform application of EU law

Case C-146/13


Top of the page Documents in the Case
Document Date Name of the parties Subject-matter Curia EUR-Lex Autres Liens
Judgment (OJ)
12/06/2015 Spain v Parliament and Council
Closer cooperation
  • Closer cooperation
  • Intellectual, industrial and commercial property
  • - Patents
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Judgment
ECLI:EU:C:2015:298		 05/05/2015 Spain v Parliament and Council
Closer cooperation
  • Closer cooperation
  • Intellectual, industrial and commercial property
  • - Patents
EUR-Lex text EUR-Lex bilingual text
Judgment (Summary)
ECLI:EU:C:2015:298		 05/05/2015 Spain v Parliament and Council
Closer cooperation
  • Closer cooperation
  • Intellectual, industrial and commercial property
  • - Patents
EUR-Lex text EUR-Lex bilingual text
Application (OJ)
31/05/2013 Spain v Parliament and Council
Closer cooperation
  • Closer cooperation
  • Intellectual, industrial and commercial property
  • - Patents
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Opinion
ECLI:EU:C:2014:2380		 18/11/2014 Spain v Parliament and Council
Closer cooperation
  • Closer cooperation
  • Intellectual, industrial and commercial property
  • - Patents
EUR-Lex text EUR-Lex bilingual text
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Reports of Cases

published in the electronic Reports of Cases (Court Reports - general)

Subject-matter

Action for annulment of Regulation (EU) No 1257/2012 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 17 December 2012 implementing enhanced cooperation in the area of the creation of unitary patent protection (OJ L 361, p. 1)) – Lack of legal basis – Breach of the principles of autonomy and uniformity in the application of European Union law

Systematic classification scheme

1.
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4 Internal policy of the European Union
  4.11 Approximation of laws
    4.11.06 Unitary patent
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2 Institutional framework of the European Union
  2.05 Legal acts of the European Union
    2.05.00 General
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3 Legal proceedings
  3.02 Actions for annulment
    3.02.04 Pleas in law
      3.02.04.03 Misuse of powers
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2 Institutional framework of the European Union
  2.05 Legal acts of the European Union
    2.05.01 Adoption procedures
      2.05.01.03 Non-legislative acts
        2.05.01.03.02 Enforcement
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2 Institutional framework of the European Union
  2.05 Legal acts of the European Union
    2.05.02 Regulations
      2.05.02.00 General
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2 Institutional framework of the European Union
  2.05 Legal acts of the European Union
    2.05.01 Adoption procedures
      2.05.01.03 Non-legislative acts
        2.05.01.03.01 Delegation
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3 Legal proceedings
  3.02 Actions for annulment
    3.02.00 General
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2 Institutional framework of the European Union
  2.05 Legal acts of the European Union
    2.05.02 Regulations
      2.05.02.02 Direct applicability


Citations of case-law or legislation

References in grounds of judgment

Operative part

Opinion


Dates

Date of the lodging of the application initiating proceedings

  • 22/03/2013

Date of the Opinion

  • 18/11/2014

Date of the hearing

Information not available

Date of delivery

05/05/2015


References

Publication in the Official Journal

Judgment: OJ C 213 from 29.06.2015, p.5

Application: OJ C 171 from 15.06.2013, p.15

Name of the parties

Spain v Parliament and Council

Notes on Academic Writings

  1. Beetz, Rainer: Das Einheitspatent rückt näher, Ecolex 2015 p.489-491 (DE)
  2. Tilmann, Winfried: Possible Impact of the Unitary Patent Regulation and the Unified Patent Court Agreement on Poland, European Intellectual Property Review 2015 p.545-548 (EN)
  3. Berlin, Dominique: Coopération renforcée, cohérence exigée, La Semaine Juridique - édition générale 2015 nº 21 p.994 (FR)
  4. Haberl, Andreas ; Schallmoser, Konstantin: EU-Patent nimmt letzte juristische Hürde – EuGH weist Klagen Spaniens ab, Gewerblicher Rechtsschutz und Urheberrecht PRAX 2015 p.221-222 (DE)
  5. Simon, Denys: Coopérations renforcées, Europe 2015 Juillet Comm. nº 7 p.13-14 (FR)
  6. Prado, Iuri Maria: Giurisdizione unificata e regime linguistico nelle sentenze della Corte UE sui ricorsi del Regno di SPagna, Il diritto industriale 2015 p.223-243 (IT)
  7. Zlatović, Dragan: Novine u europskom patentnom pravu, Hrvatska pravna revija 2015 n° 9 p.32-39 (HR)
  8. Zlatović, Dragan: REFLEKSIJE SUVREMENOG EUROPSKOG PATENTNOG PRAVA NA RADNOPRAVNI POLOŽAJ IZUMITELJA, Radno pravo 2015 n° 12 p.19-30 (HR)
  9. Nowicka, Aurelia ; Skubisz, Ryszard: Stanowisko Trybunału Sprawiedliwości w sprawie jednolitego patentu europejskiego (uwagi krytyczne), Państwo i Prawo 2015 Vol. 11 p.19-40 (PL)
  10. Jaeger, Thomas: Nach l‘Europe à la carte nun la loi européenne à la carte? Zur Erlaubnis der Umgehung der Unionsmethode nach dem Urteil in Rs. C-146/13 u. a., Europarecht 2015 Heft 4 p.461-476 (DE)
  11. Pistoia, Emanuela: Outsourcing EU law while differentiating European integration - the unitary patent's identity in the two "Spanish rulings" of 5 May 2015, European Law Review 2016 p.711-726 (EN)



Procedural Analysis Information

Source of the question referred for a preliminary ruling

Information not available

Subject-matter

  • Closer cooperation
  • Intellectual, industrial and commercial property
  • - Patents

Provisions of national law referred to

Information not available

Provisions of international law referred to

Information not available

Procedure and result

  • Actions for annulment : dismissal on substantive grounds
  • Actions for annulment : dismissal on grounds of inadmissibility

Formation of the Court

grande chambre (Cour)

Judge-Rapporteur

Ilešič

Advocate General

Bot

Language(s) of the Case

  • Spanish

Language(s) of the Opinion

  • French