Type: Judgment

Authority: National Courts: Supreme Courts (Italy) - Corte Costituzionale

Date: 03/17/2006

Subject: The Italian Constitutional Court declares unconstitutional some legal provisions of the law for the elections to the European Parliament, where they don't establish that the deadline for a candidate elected in several constituencies to exercise the option to choose the constituency must start from the communication of the last declaration of his election. The Court states that the relevant administrative procedure has to respect the principle of publicity, which is based on the constitutional principles of impartiality and but it also a "principle of the common constitutional heritage of EU Member States".

Original language: Italian

Classification: Art. 41 Right to good administration by the bodies of the union - Art. 42 Right to access documents of EU institutions

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Notices: Relations among Courts
The Italian Constitutional Court it recalls a sentence of the Law court of the 2 you open them 1998 in cause C 367/95