Freezing and confiscation of instrumentalities and proceeds of crime in the European Union - fundamental rights - right to property and right to effective remedy (Art. 17 and 47 CFR) - Framework Decision 2005/212/JHA - Directive 2014/42/EU - National legislation providing for the confiscation, for the benefit of the State – Property belonging to a third party acting in good faith

Activity incompatible with the duties of a Member of the Court of Auditors – Expenses considered undue – Recovery decision – Decision of the Court of Justice ruling on the breach of the obligations arising from the office of Member of the Court of Auditors – Lawfulness of OLAF’s investigation and final report – Duty to state reasons – Limitation period – Legitimate expectations – Error of assessment – Non-contractual liability – Non-material damage

Commission Decision 2006/928/EC establishing a mechanism for cooperation and verification (MCV) – Legal effects of the MCV and of the reports established by the Commission on its basis – Criminal proceedings relating to corruption – Decisions of a constitutional court ruling on the exclusion of evidence obtained by or in collaboration with the intelligence services – Article 47 of the Charter of Fundamental Rights of the European Union – Judicial independence – Primacy of EU law – Disciplinary proceedings against judges

Reference for a preliminary ruling – Protection of the European Union’s financial interests – Article 325(1) TFEU – Convention on the protection of the European Communities’ financial interests – Criminal proceedings concerning corruption – Projects partially funded by European funds – Decision of a constitutional court ruling on the legality of the composition of judicial panels – National legislation providing for the composition of judicial panels by drawing lots – Extraordinary appeal against final judgments – Right to a tribunal previously established by law – Second paragraph of Article 47 of the Charter of Fundamental Rights of the European Union – Judicial independence – Second subparagraph of Article 19(1) TEU – Primacy of EU law – Disciplinary proceedings against members of the judiciary

Reference for a preliminary ruling — Article 267 TFEU — Concept of ‘court or tribunal’ — Protection of natural persons with regard to the processing of personal data — Regulation (EU) 2016/679 — Scope — Article 2(2)(a) — Meaning of ‘activity which falls outside the scope of Union law’ — Article 4(7) — Concept of ‘controller’ — Petitions Committee of the parliament of a Federated State of a Member State — Article 15 — Right of access by the data subject

Council Framework Decision 2008/675/JHA of 24 July 2008 on taking account of convictions in the Member States of the European Union - Art. 3(3) - interference - aggregate sentences

Council Framework Decision 2008/909/JHA of 27 November 2008 on the application of the principle of mutual recognition to judgments in criminal matters imposing custodial sentences or measures involving deprivation of liberty for the purpose of their enforcement in the European Union - taking over of aggregate sentences

European Arrest Warrant - independence - Hamburg Public Prosecutor’s Office as issuing judicial authority within the meaning of Art. 6(1) FD EAW

See judgments of 27 Mai 2019, OG and PI (Parquets de Lübeck et de Zwickau) (C-508/18 et C-82/19 PPU, EU:C:2019:456)

Fair and appropriate compensation to crime victims - implementation of Directive - effet utile

Police and judicial cooperation in criminal matters — European arrest warrant — Concept of ‘issuing judicial authority’ — European arrest warrant issued by a public prosecutor’s office of a Member State — Whether subordinate to a body of the executive — Power of a Ministry of Justice to issue an instruction in a specific case — No guarantee of independence

Judicial cooperation in criminal matters - Public references to guilt - Pre-trial detention decision - Remedies - Procedure for reviewing the lawfulness of that decision - Observance of the presumption of innocence - Right to have a case heard within a reasonable time. - National legislation restricting the powers of the national courts to make a request to the Court of Justice for a preliminary ruling or obliging them to adjudicate without waiting for the answer to that request - Disciplinary sanctions for failure to comply with that legislation

Council Framework Decision 2008/947/JHA of 27 November 2008 on the application of the principle of mutual recognition to judgments and probation decisions with a view to the supervision of probation measures and alternative sanctions - recognition and execution of judgment where the sentenced person has been conditionally released without any additional obligations being imposed.

Reference for a preliminary ruling – Article 2 and the second subparagraph of Article 19(1) TEU – Rule of law – Effective judicial protection – Principle of judicial independence – Procedure for appointment to a position as judge at the Sąd Najwyższy (Supreme Court, Poland) – Appointment by the President of the Republic of Poland on the basis of a resolution emanating from the National Council of the Judiciary – Lack of independence of that council – Lack of effectiveness of the judicial remedy available against such a resolution – Judgment of the Trybunał Konstytucyjny (Constitutional Court, Poland) repealing the provision on which the referring court’s jurisdiction is based – Adoption of legislation declaring the discontinuance of pending cases by operation of law and precluding in the future any judicial remedy in such cases – Article 267 TFEU – Option …

Reference for a preliminary ruling — Area of freedom, security and justice — Directive 2008/115/EC — Article 11 — Entry ban — Third-country national on whom such an entry ban has been imposed but who has never left the Member State concerned — Custodial sentence

Reference for a preliminary ruling – Processing of personal data in the electronic communications sector – Directive 2002/58/EC – Providers of electronic communications services – Confidentiality of the communications – Limitations – Article 15(1) – Articles 7, 8 and 11 and Article 52(1) of the Charter of Fundamental Rights of the European Union – Legislation providing for the general and indiscriminate retention of traffic and location data by providers of electronic communications services – Access of national authorities to retained data for the purpose of investigations – Combating of crime in general – Authorisation given by the public prosecutor’s office – Use of data in criminal proceedings as evidence – Admissibility

Council Framework Decision of 13 June 2002 on the European arrest warrant and the surrender procedures between Member States - Interpretation of Art. 2(2) FD - point in time

Rule of Presumption of Innocence - Declaration of Guilt - Co-defendant - Fair Trial - Joint Proceedings - Rule of Law