Judgment of the Court (Fourth Chamber) of 27 October 2016

Criminal proceedings against Emil Milev

Request for a preliminary ruling from the Spetsializiran nakazatelen sad

Reference for a preliminary ruling — Urgent preliminary ruling procedure — Judicial cooperation in criminal matters — Directive 2016/343/EU — Articles 3 and 6 — Temporal application — Review by the courts of the remand in custody pending trial of an accused — National legislation prohibiting, during the trial stage of the proceedings, inquiry into whether there are reasonable grounds to suspect that the accused has committed an offence — Incompatibility with Article 5(1)(c) and (4) of the European Convention on Human Rights — Discretion left by the national case-law to the national courts to decide whether or not to apply that convention

Case C-439/16 PPU


Top of the page Documents in the Case
Document Date Name of the parties Subject-matter Curia EUR-Lex Autres Liens
Judgment (OJ)
09/12/2016 Milev
Judgment
ECLI:EU:C:2016:818
27/10/2016 Milev
Judgment (Summary)
ECLI:EU:C:2016:818
27/10/2016 Milev
Application (OJ)
16/09/2016 Milev
Opinion
ECLI:EU:C:2016:760
11/10/2016 Milev
Top of the page Legal analysis of the decision or of the case

Reports of Cases

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

Subject-matter

Information not available

Systematic classification scheme

1.
3 Legal proceedings
  3.08 Procedural rules
    3.08.12 Urgent preliminary ruling procedure
2 Institutional framework of the European Union
  2.05 Legal acts of the European Union
    2.05.03 Directives
      2.05.03.00 General
1 The legal order of the European Union
  1.05 EU law and national law
    1.05.02 Implementation of EU law within the national legal system
      1.05.02.00 General
2 Institutional framework of the European Union
  2.05 Legal acts of the European Union
    2.05.03 Directives
      2.05.03.00 General
4 Internal policy of the European Union
  4.06 Area of freedom, security and justice
    4.06.03 Judicial cooperation in criminal matters
      4.06.03.01 Harmonization of laws


Citations of case-law or legislation

References in grounds of judgment

Operative part

Opinion


Dates

Date of the lodging of the application initiating proceedings

  • 05/08/2016

Date of the Opinion

  • 11/10/2016

Date of the hearing

Information not available

Date of delivery

27/10/2016


References

Publication in the Official Journal

Judgment: OJ C 6 from 09.01.2017, p.23

Application: OJ C 364 from 03.10.2016, p.12

Name of the parties

Milev

Notes on Academic Writings

  1. Berlin, Dominique: Position délicate du juge pénal bulgare, La Semaine Juridique - édition générale 2016 nº 46 p.2086 (FR)
  2. Simon, Denys: La Cour précise la portée des obligations pesant sur les États membres pendant le délai de transposition des directives dans un contexte illustrant la complexité de l'incidence du droit de la Convention européenne des droits de l'homme dans l'ordre juridique de l'Union, Europe 2016 Décembre Comm. nº 12 p.18-19 (FR)
  3. Simon, Denys: Directives, Europe 2016 Décembre nº 12 p.18-19 (FR)
  4. Chifchieva, Miroslava: Reasonable Suspicion or Presumption of Innocence, Европейски правен преглед 2017 nº XVII p.148-165 (BG)
  5. Kornezov, Alexander: Ten Years of Preliminary References from Bulgaria - A Critical Appraisal, Европейски правен преглед 2017 nº XVIII p.21-42 (BG)



Procedural Analysis Information

Source of the question referred for a preliminary ruling

Spetsializiran nakazatelen sad - Bulgaria

Subject-matter

  • area of freedom, security and justice
  • - judicial cooperation in criminal matters

Provisions of national law referred to

Наказателно-процесуален кодекс (Code de procédure pénale), чл. 16, 56, ал. 1, 63. ал. 1 и член 256, ал.1, т.2 и ал.3 във връзка с член 270, ал.2 от НПК

Provisions of international law referred to

Convention européenne de sauvegarde des Droits de l'Homme et des Libertés fondamentales (04/11/1950), article 5, paragraphes 1, lettre c, et 4 (04/11/1950)

Procedure and result

  • Preliminary reference - urgent procedure

Formation of the Court

quatrième chambre (Cour)

Judge-Rapporteur

von Danwitz

Advocate General

Bobek

Language(s) of the Case

  • Bulgarian

Language(s) of the Opinion

  • French