Judgment of the Court (Fourth Chamber) of 1 October 2015

Criminal proceedings against Skerdjan Celaj

Request for a preliminary ruling from the Tribunale di Firenze

Reference for a preliminary ruling — Area of freedom, security and justice — Directive 2008/115/EC — Return of illegally staying third-country nationals — Return decision accompanied by an entry ban of three years’ duration — Breach of an entry ban — Third-country national previously removed — Sentence of imprisonment in case of new unlawful entry into the national territory — Compatibility

Case C-290/14


Top of the page Documents in the Case
Document Date Name of the parties Subject-matter Curia EUR-Lex Autres Liens
Judgment (OJ)
30/10/2015 Skerdjan Celaj
area of freedom, security and justice
- Immigration policy
  • area of freedom, security and justice
  • - Immigration policy
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Judgment
ECLI:EU:C:2015:640		 01/10/2015 Skerdjan Celaj
area of freedom, security and justice
- Immigration policy
  • area of freedom, security and justice
  • - Immigration policy
EUR-Lex text EUR-Lex bilingual text
Judgment (Summary)
ECLI:EU:C:2015:640		 01/10/2015 Skerdjan Celaj
area of freedom, security and justice
- Immigration policy
  • area of freedom, security and justice
  • - Immigration policy
EUR-Lex text EUR-Lex bilingual text
Application (OJ)
08/08/2014 Skerdjan Celaj
area of freedom, security and justice
- Immigration policy
  • area of freedom, security and justice
  • - Immigration policy
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Opinion
ECLI:EU:C:2015:285		 28/04/2015 Skerdjan Celaj
area of freedom, security and justice
- Immigration policy
  • area of freedom, security and justice
  • - Immigration policy
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

Information not available

Systematic classification scheme

1.
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4 Internal policy of the European Union
  4.06 Area of freedom, security and justice
    4.06.01 Border checks, asylum and immigration
      4.06.01.04 Immigration policy


Citations of case-law or legislation

References in grounds of judgment

Operative part

Opinion


Dates

Date of the lodging of the application initiating proceedings

  • 12/06/2014

Date of the Opinion

  • 28/04/2015

Date of the hearing

Information not available

Date of delivery

01/10/2015


References

Publication in the Official Journal

Judgment: OJ C 381 from 16.11.2015, p.8

Application: OJ C 292 from 01.09.2014, p.18

Name of the parties

Skerdjan Celaj

Notes on Academic Writings

  1. Gazin, Fabienne: Politique des retours, Europe 2015 Décembre Comm. nº 12 p.25 (FR)
  2. Leboeuf, Luc: La Cour de justice à la poursuite d'une conciliation entre la competence pénale États membres et l'effet utile de la directive retour, Revue des affaires européennes 2015 p.745-751 (FR)
  3. Romano, Andrea: "Circumstances ... are clearly distinct" : la detenzione dello straniero per il delitto di illecito reingresso nella sentenza Celaj della Corte di giustizia, Diritto, immigrazione e cittadinanza 2015 p.109-124 (IT)
  4. Carlier, Jean-Yves ; Leboeuf, Luc: Droit européen des migrations, Journal de droit européen 2016 nº 1 p.105-113 (FR)
  5. Kosińska, Anna Magdalena: The Problem of Criminalisation of the Illegal Entry of a Third-Country National in the Case of Breaching an Entry Ban—Commentary on the Judgment of the Court of Justice of 1 October 2015 in Case C 290/14, Skerdjan Celaj, European Journal of Migration and Law 2016 Vol. 18 p.243–257 (EN)
  6. Takis, Athanasios: Armenopoulos 2016 p.523-524 (EL)
  7. Savino, Mario: Irregular migration at the crossroads, between administrative removal and criminal deterrence: The Celaj Case, Common Market Law Review 2016, Volume 53, Issue 5, p. 1419-1439 (EN)
  8. Labayle, Henri: XIV. Espace de liberté, de sécurité et de justice - Cour de justice, 4e ch., 1er octobre 2015, Skerdjan Celaj, aff. C-290/14, ECLI:EU:C:2015:640, Jurisprudence de la CJUE 2015. Décisions et commentaires (Ed. Bruylant - Bruxelles) 2016, p. 574-576 (FR)
  9. Carlier, Jean-Yves ; Leboeuf, Luc: Droit européen des migrations, Journal de droit européen 2019 nº 3 p.114-130 (FR)



Procedural Analysis Information

Source of the question referred for a preliminary ruling

Tribunale di Firenze - Italy

Subject-matter

  • area of freedom, security and justice
  • - Immigration policy

Provisions of national law referred to

decreto legislativo 25/07/1998 n° 286, articoli 13, comma 13 e comma 13 ter, 14 decreto-legge 23/06/2011 n° 89 Legge 02/08/2011 n° 129

Provisions of international law referred to

Information not available

Procedure and result

  • Reference for a preliminary ruling

Formation of the Court

quatrième chambre (Cour)

Judge-Rapporteur

Bay Larsen

Advocate General

Szpunar

Language(s) of the Case

  • Italian

Language(s) of the Opinion

  • English