Type: Judgment

Authority: European Authorities: Euopean Union' Court of Justice

Date: 09/14/2023

Subject: The Court affirmed that Article 50 of the Charter of Fundamental Rights of the European Union precludes the imposition of a penalty of a criminal nature on a person for an infringement of a provision of national legislation which is liable to obstruct the exercise of the freedom to provide services, within the meaning of Article 56 TFEU, if that person has already been the subject of a judicial decision which has become final, given at the end of a hearing with the taking of evidence, and which resulted in that person being acquitted of an infringement of a different provision of that legislation in respect of the same acts

Classification: Justice - Art. 50 Right not to be tried or punished twice in criminal proceedings for the same criminal offence

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