Judgment of the Court (Ninth Chamber) of 7 July 2022

F. Hoffmann-La Roche Ltd and Others v Autorità Garante della Concorrenza e del Mercato

Request for a preliminary ruling from the Consiglio di Stato

Reference for a preliminary ruling – Second subparagraph of Article 19(1) TEU – Obligation on Member States to provide remedies sufficient to ensure effective legal protection in the fields covered by EU law – Article 267 TFEU – Obligation on the referring court to give full effect to the interpretation of EU law provided by the Court of Justice – Charter of Fundamental Rights of the European Union – Article 47 – Access to an independent and impartial tribunal previously established by law – Judgment of a national court of last instance after a preliminary ruling by the Court – Alleged non-conformity of that judgment with the interpretation of EU law provided by the Court – National legislation preventing the bringing of an action for revision of that judgment

Case C-261/21


Top of the page Documents in the Case
Document Date Name of the parties Subject-matter Curia EUR-Lex Autres Liens
Judgment (OJ)
05/08/2022 F. Hoffmann-La Roche and Others
Competition
- Agreements, decisions and concerted practices
  • Competition
  • - Agreements, decisions and concerted practices
  • Principles of Union law
  • Fundamental rights
  • - Charter of Fundamental Rights
EUR-Lex text EUR-Lex bilingual text
Judgment
ECLI:EU:C:2022:534		 07/07/2022 F. Hoffmann-La Roche and Others
Competition
- Agreements, decisions and concerted practices
  • Competition
  • - Agreements, decisions and concerted practices
  • Principles of Union law
  • Fundamental rights
  • - Charter of Fundamental Rights
EUR-Lex text EUR-Lex bilingual text
Judgment (Summary)
ECLI:EU:C:2022:534		 07/07/2022 F. Hoffmann-La Roche and Others
Competition
- Agreements, decisions and concerted practices
  • Competition
  • - Agreements, decisions and concerted practices
  • Principles of Union law
  • Fundamental rights
  • - Charter of Fundamental Rights
EUR-Lex text EUR-Lex bilingual text
Application (OJ)
18/06/2021 F. Hoffmann-La Roche and Others
Competition
- Agreements, decisions and concerted practices
  • Competition
  • - Agreements, decisions and concerted practices
  • Principles of Union law
  • Fundamental rights
  • - Charter of Fundamental Rights
EUR-Lex text EUR-Lex bilingual text
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

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Systematic classification scheme

1.
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3 Legal proceedings
  3.04 Reference for a preliminary ruling
    3.04.02 Jurisdiction of the Court of Justice
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1 The legal order of the European Union
  1.04 Fundamental rights
    1.04.03 The fundamental rights
      1.04.03.47 Right to an effective remedy and to a fair trial


Citations of case-law or legislation

References in grounds of judgment

Operative part

Opinion

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Dates

Date of the lodging of the application initiating proceedings

  • 21/04/2021

Date of the Opinion

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Date of the hearing

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Date of delivery

07/07/2022


References

Publication in the Official Journal

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Name of the parties

F. Hoffmann-La Roche and Others

Notes on Academic Writings

  1. Michel, Valérie: Renvoi préjudiciel - Prise en compte de l'arrêt préjudiciel par le juge a quo, Europe 2022, n° 10 octobre, comm. 320 (FR)
  2. Lacresse, Alexandre: Question préjudicielle : La Cour de justice de l’Union européenne juge que le droit de l’Union n’oblige pas les États membres à permettre aux justiciables de solliciter la révision d’une décision juridictionnelle rendue en dernier ressort au motif qu’elle méconnaîtrait un précédent arrêt préjudiciel rendu dans la même affaire (F. Hoffmann-La Roche e.a.), Concurrences : revue des droits de la concurrence 2022, nº 4, p. 128-129 (FR)
  3. Coutron, Laurent: V. Questions préjudicielles - Cour de justice, 7 juillet 2022, F. Hoffmann-La Roche e.a., aff. C-261/21, EU:C:2022:534, Jurisprudence de la CJUE 2022. Décisions et commentaires (Ed. Bruylant - Bruxelles) 2024, p. 343-357 (FR)
  4. Coutron, Laurent: L'impossible évolution du renvoi préjudiciel en interprétation en un mécanisme de contrôle de la correcte application d'un précédent arrêt préjudiciel, Revue trimestrielle de droit européen 2023, n° 4, p. 714-723 (FR)



Procedural Analysis Information

Source of the question referred for a preliminary ruling

Consiglio di Stato - Italy

Subject-matter

  • Competition
  • - Agreements, decisions and concerted practices
  • Principles of Union law
  • Fundamental rights
  • - Charter of Fundamental Rights

Provisions of national law referred to

Regio decreto 28/10/1940 decreto legislativo 02/07/2010 n° 104 - Codice del processo amministrativo

Provisions of international law referred to

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Procedure and result

  • Reference for a preliminary ruling

Formation of the Court

Neuvième chambre (Cour)

Judge-Rapporteur

Lycourgos

Advocate General

Collins

Language(s) of the Case

  • Italian

Language(s) of the Opinion

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