Notices for publication in the OJ nº T-231/20 of Tribunal General de la Unión Europea, Friday June 05, 2020

• Resolution Date: Friday June 05, 2020
• Issuing Organization: Tribunal General de la Unión Europea
• Decision Number: T-231/20

Action brought on 23 April 2020 - Price v Council

(Case T-231/20)

Language of the case: French

Parties

Applicant: David Price (Le Dorat, France) (represented by: J. Fouchet, lawyer)

Defendant: Council of the European Union

Form of order sought

The applicant claims that the Court should:

Stay the proceedings in the case and refer the following questions to the Court of Justice of the European Union for a preliminary ruling under the expedited procedure:

Does the withdrawal of the United Kingdom from the European Union revoke the EU citizenship of UK nationals who, prior to the end of the transition period, have exercised their right to free movement and their right to settle freely in the territory of another Member State?

If so, is the combination of Articles 2, 3, 10, 12 and 27 of the withdrawal agreement, point 6 of the preamble thereto and Articles 18, 20 and 21 of the Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union to be interpreted as allowing those UK nationals to retain, without exception, the rights of EU citizenship that they enjoyed prior to the withdrawal of their country from the European Union?

If the second question is answered in the negative, does the withdrawal agreement not infringe Articles 18, 20 and 21 of the Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union in so far as it does not contain a provision allowing them to retain those rights without exception?

In any event, does Article 127(1)(b) of the withdrawal...