The EU Commissioner for Justice, Didier Reynders, has assured that any national process must be suspended, including any affected by the Amnesty law that is being processed in the Senate, until the Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU) resolves. the preliminary questions that may be raised by national courts, “regardless of what national legislation establishes.”
This is what the commissioner explained in response to a question posed by the head of the European delegation of Ciudadanos, Adrián Vázquez, in response to the attempt by the Government and its pro-independence partners to eliminate the ability of the CJEU to suspend in the amnesty law itself.
Reynders has confirmed that Article 23 of the Statute of the CJEU establishes that, “in cases dealt with through the preliminary ruling procedure, the resolution of the national court by which it submits a matter to the Court of Justice suspends the national procedure.” “Consequently,” he continued, “the submission of a request for a preliminary ruling entails the suspension of the national procedure until the Court of Justice rules.”
In response to Reynders’ statements, the president of the Popular Party of Catalonia, Alejandro Fernández, has stated that his party receives the position of the EU Justice Commissioner with “caution” but with “great satisfaction.”
Fernández has assured that “it is reliable proof that the rule of law works in Spain and in the EU”, and has claimed that “the PP’s strategy against the amnesty is the correct one.”
