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- Case law of the Court of Justice of the European Union
- Case law of the European Court of Human Rights
- Scope of application of the Charter
- Independence and impartiality of tribunals in the CJEU case law
- Article 47 EU Charter: scope of application and interpretation
- Right to an effective remedy under Art. 47 of the EU Charter
- Obstacles to access to court (court fees, limitation periods, representation)
- Service, information and linguistic rights
- The right to be heard and access to the file
- Procedural rights of victims of crime
- Freedom of movement and residence
- The right of access to EU documents
- LGBT+ rights in the freedom of movement and residence
- The right of good administration
- Criminal law
- Administrative law
CJEU, Fact Sheet, Field of application of the Charter of Fundamental Rights of the European Union
Case C-493/17 (Grand Chamber) Weiss and Others, December 2018
Case C-416/17 European Commission v French Republic, 4 October 2018
Case T-817/14, Zoofachhandel Züpke GmbH and Others v European Commission, 17 March 2016
Case T-138/14, Chart v EEAS, 16 December 2015
Joined Cases C-446/12 - 449/12, Willems and Others, 16 April 2015
Case C-483/12, Pelckmans Turnhout, 8 May 2014
Case C-390/12, Pfleger and Others, 30 April 2014
Case C-206/13, Siragusa, 6 March 2014
Case T 383/11, Eyad Makhlouf v Council of the European Union, 13 September 2013
Case C‑617/10, Åklagaren v Hans Åkerberg Fransson, 26 February 2013
Case C-399/11, Stefano Melloni v Ministerio Fiscal, 26 February 2013
Opinion of Advocate General, Case C-399/11, Melloni, 2 October 2012
Case C-40/11, Yoshikazu Iida v Stadt Ulm, 8 November 2012
Case C-27/11, Vinkov v Nachalnik Administrativno-nakazatelna deynost, 7 June 2012
Case C-482/10, Teresa Cicala v Regione Siciliana, 21 December 2011
Case C-555/07, Kücükdeveci, 19 January 2010
Case T-51/89 Tetra Pak Rausing SA v Commission of the European Communities, 10 July 1990
Case C-791/19 R (Order) Commission v Poland, 8 April 2020 (No English version available)
Commission v. Poland (Grand Chamber), C‑192/18, 5 November 2019
Commission v. Poland (Grand Chamber), C-619/18, 24 June 2019
Case C-216/18 PPU (Grand Chamber) LM, 25 July 2018
Case C 555/13 (Order) Merck Canada Inc. v Accord Healthcare Ltd and Others, 13 February 2014
Case C 371/13 (Order) SC Schuster & Co Ecologic, 7 November 2013 (No English version available)
Case C 394/11 Valeri Hariev Belov v CHEZ Elektro Balgaria AD and Others, 31 January 2013
Case C 363/11 Epitropos tou Elegktikou Synedriou, 19 December 2012
Joined cases C-83/01 P, C-93/01 P and C-94/01 P Chronopost v Ufex and Others, 3 July 2003
Case C-752/18 Deutsche Umwelthilfe, 19 December 2019
Haqbin (Grand Chamber), C-233/18, 12 November 2019
Torubarov (Grand Chamber), C-556/17, 29 July 2019
Case C-414/16 (Grand Chamber) Egenberger, 17 April 2018
Case C-685/15 Online Games and Others, 14 June 2017
Case T-340/14, Klyuyev v Council of the European Union, 15 September 2016
Tall, C-239/14, 17 December 2015
Olainfarm, C-104/13, 23 October 2014
Case C-310/16 Dzivev and Other, 17 January 2019
Case C-612/15 (Grand Chamber) Kolev and Others, 5 June 2018
El Hassani, C-403/16, 13 December 2017
Case C-42/17 (Grand Chamber) M.A.S. and M.B., 5 December 2017
Case-177/17 (Order) Demarchi Gino S.a.s. v Ministero della Giustizia, 7 September 2017
Biuro podróży Partner, C-119/15, 21 December 2016
Printeos and Others v Commission, T-95/15, 13 December 2016
Case C-441/14, DI (Grand Chamber), 19 April 2016
Schrems, (Grand Chamber), C-362/14, 6 October 2015
Case C 238/12 P FLSmidth v Commission, 30 April 2014
Case C 278/13 P (Order) Commission v Pilkington Group, 10 September 2013
Case C-651/19 Commissaire général aux réfugiés and aux apatrides, 9 September 2020
Case C-280/18 Flausch and Others, 7 November 2019
Case C-676/17 Călin 11 September 2019
Case C-317/18 Cátia Correia Moreira v Município de Portimão, 13 June 2019
Case C-637/17 Cogeco Communications, 28 March 2019
Case C-585/16 (Grand Chamber) Alheto, 25 July 2018
Case C-181/16 (Grand Chamber) Sadikou Gnandi v État belge, 19 June 2018
Case C-470/16 North East Pylon Pressure Campaing and Sheehy, 15 March 2018
Case T-257/16, NM v European Council, 28 February 2017
Case C-429/15 Evelyn Danqua v Minister for Justice and Equality and Others, 20 October 2016
Case T-470/13, Merck KGaA v European Commission, 8 September 2016
Ordre des barreaux francophones and germanophone, C-543/14, 28 July 2016
Case C-49/14 Finanmadrid EFC, 18 February 2016
Case C-69/14 (Grand Chamber) Târșia, 6 October 2015
Orizzonte Salute, C-61/14, 6 October 2015
Case C-510/13 E.ON Földgáz Trade, 19 March 2015
FK v Commission, T-248/13, 16 September 2013
Case C 93/12 Agrokonsulting-04, 27 June 2013
Case C-156/12 (Order) GREP GmbH v Freitstaat Bayern, 13 June 2012 (No English version available)
Case T-19/06, Mindo v Commission, 5 October 2011
Case C-2/08 Fallimento Olimpiclub, 3 September 2009
Case C-349/08 P (Order) Kronberger v Parliament, 19 May 2009 (No English version available)
Case C-312/93 Peterbroeck, Van Campenhout & Cie v Belgian State, 14 December 1995
Case C-338/91 Steenhorst-Neerings, 27 October 1993
Joined cases C-6/90 and C-9/90 Francovich and Bonifaci v Italy, 19 November 1991
Case C-208/90 Emmott v Minister for Social Welfare and Attorney General, 25 July 1991
Case C-213/89 Factortame, 19 June 1990
Case 199/82 Amministrazione delle finanze dello Stato v San Giorgio, 9 November 1983
Case T-549/15, Ramón Guiral Broto v European Union Intellectual Property Office, 13 December 2016
Case T-720/14, Arkady Romanovich Rotenberg v. Council of the European Union, 30 November 2016
Case T-154/15, Aiman Jaber v Council of the European Union, 26 October 2016 (Available only in French)
Case T-545/13, Fahed Mohamed Sakher Al Matri v Council of the European Union, 30 June 2016
Case T-469/13, Generics (UK) Ltd v European Commission, 8 September 2016
Case T-265/12, Schenker Ltd v European Commission, 29 February 2016
Case T-267/12, Deutsche Bahn and Others v European Commission, 29 February 2016
Case T 343/13, CN, supported by the EDPS v European Parliament, 3 December 2015
Opinion of Advocate general in Case C-298/16 Ispas, 9 November 2017
Case C-507/19 Bundesrepublik Deutschland (Case in progress)
Case C-129/19 (Grand Chamber) Presidenza del Consiglio dei Ministri v BV, 16 July 2020
Case C-659/18 VW, 12 March 2020
Spetsializirana prokuratura, C-653/19 PPU, 28 November 2019
Case C-467/18 Rayonna prokuratura Lom, 19 September 2019
Case C-38/18 Gambino and Hyka, 29 July 2019
Opinion of Advocate General in Case C-646/17 Moro, 13 June 2019
Case C-377/18 AH and Others, 5 September 2019
Case C-601/14 (Grand Chamber) European Commission v Italian Republic, 11 October 2016
Case 34/09, Zambrano, 8 March 2011
Case C-434/09, Shirley McCarthy v Secretary of State for the Home Department, 5 May 2011
Case C-145/09, Land Baden-Württemberg v Panagiotis Tsakouridis, 23 November 2010
Case 162/09, Secretary of State for Work and Pensions v Child Poverty Action Group, 7 October 2010
Case T-727/15, Association Justice & Environment, z.s. v European Commission, 23 January 2017
Case C-615/13 P, Client Earth and Pan Europe v EFSA, 16 July 2015
Case T-115/13, Dennekamp, 15 July 2015
Case T-306/12, Spirlea, 25 September 2014
Case C-350/12 P, Sophie in ’t Veld v Council, 3 July 2014
Joined Cases C-514/11 P and C-605/11 P, LPN v Commission, 14 November 2013
Case C-280/11 P, Access Info Europe, 17 October 2013
Case T-331/11, Besselink, 12 September 2013
Case T-590/10, Thesing and Bloomberg Finance v ECB, 29 November 2012
Case T-190/10, Kathleen Egan and Margaret Hackett v European Parliament, 28 March 2012
Case T-59/09, Federal Republic of Germany v European Commission, 14 February 2012
Case C-506/08 P, MyTravel, 21 July 2011
Joined cases C-514/07 P, C-528/07 P and C-52/07 P, Open Skies cases, 21 September 2010
Case T-762/14, Koninklijke Philips NV and Philips France v European Commission, 15 December 2016
Case T-95/15, Printeos SA and others v European Commission, 13 December 2016
Joined Cases T-458/09 and T-171/10, Slovak Telekom a.s. v European Commission, 22 March 2012
Case T-672/14, Dr. August Wolff GmbH & Co. KG Arzneimittel et Remedia d.o.o. contre Commission européenne, 20 October 2016 (only in French)
Case T- 207/15, National Iranian Tanker Company v Council of the European Union, 14 September 2016
Case T-830/14, Mohamed Farahat v Council of the European Union, 9 September 2016
Case T-719/14, Tri Ocean Energy v Council of the European Union, 9 September 2016
Case T-472/13, H. Lundbeck A/S and Lundbeck Ltd v European Commission, 8 September 2016
Case T-66/14, Bredenkamp and Others v Council and Commission, 21 July 2016
Case T 383/11, Eyad Makhlouf v Council of the European Union, 13 September 2013
Case T-4/11 et T-5/11, Export Development Bank of Iran v Council, 6 September 2013 (only in French)
Case T 645/11 P, Michael Heath contre la Banque centrale européenne, 18 June 2013 (only in French)
Case T-119/11, Simone Gbagbo contre le Conseil de l’Union européenne, 25 April 2013 (only in French)
Case T-299/08, Elf Aquitaine SA v European Commission, 17 May 2011
Pirozzi v. Belgium, no. 21055/11, 17 April 2018
Avotiņš v. Latvia, ECHR Judgment, Appl. No. 17502/07, 23 May 2016
Furman v Slovenia and Austria, ECHR Judgment, Appl. No. 16608/09, 5 February 2015
Hoholm v Slovakia, ECHR Judgment, Appl. No. 35632/13, 13 January 2015
Tarakhel v Switzerland, ECHR Judgment, Appl. No. 29217/124, 4 November 2014
Jeunesse v The Netherlands, ECHR Judgment, Appl. No. 12738/10, 3 October 2014
Dhahbi v Italy, ECHR Judgment, Appl. No. 17120/09, 8 April 2014
X v Latvia, ECHR Judgment, Appl. No. 27853/09, 26 November 2013
Del Río Prada v Spain, ECHR, Appl. No. 42750/09, 21 October 2013,
Delfi AS v Estonia, ECHR Judgment, Appl. No. 64569/09, 10 October 2013
Povse v Austria, ECHR Decision, Appl. No. 3890/11, 18 June 2013
Michaud v France, ECHR Judgment, Appl. No. 12323/11, 6 December 2012
Karoussiotis v Portugal, ECHR Judgment, Appl. No.23205/08, 1 February 2011
M.S.S. v Belgium and Greece, ECHR Judgment, Appl. No. 30696/09, 21 January 2011
Schalk and Kopf v Austria, no. 30141/04, 24 June 2010
Kokkelvisserij U.A. v The Netherlands, ECHR Decision, Appl. No. 13645/05, 20 January 2009
Connolly v 15 EU MS, ECHR Decision, 9 December 2008, Appl. No. 73274/01 (only in French)
Kress v France, no. 39594/98, 7 June 2001
Matthews v UK, ECHR Judgment, Appl. No. 24833/94, 18 February 1999
Hauschildt v. Denmark, ECtHR Judgment, Application no. 10486/83, 24 May 1989
De Cubber v. Belgium, ECtHR Judgment, Application no. 9186/80, 26 October 1984
Piersack v. Belgium, ECtHR Judgment, Application no. 8692/79, 1 October 1982
Related documents
- European Commission reports on the application of the EU Charter
- Documents on the relationship between the ECHR and the EU
- Other relevant documents on the EU Charter
Factsheet ECtHR: Case law concerning the EU
Factsheet ECtHR: Case law concerning the EU, May 2016
Factsheet ECtHR: Case law concerning the EU, November 2014
Reflets Édition spéciale Charte des droits fondamentaux de l’Union européenne, No 1/2013: Informations rapides sur les développements juridiques présentant un intérêt pour l’Union européenne (available only in French)
The Charter of Fundamental Rights of the European Union, Report, Flash Eurobarometer 340, April 2012
Recommended links and tools
DG Justice oft he European Commission
The Fundamental Rights Agency: Charterpedia
The European Parliament providing information on the Charter
FRA Fundamental Rights Report 2020
ECtHR case law research reports with respect to Art. 6 ECHR
FRA Fundamental Rights Report, EU Charter of Fundamental Rights and its use by Member States, 2016
Last updated in March 2021