Skip to content

GlobalLawDBby GenieAI

Laws Search Sanctions Map Data Developers

Search the text of the law

Log in Get an API key

Laws Search Sanctions Map Data Developers

Log in Get an API key

The Global Law Database. Free to read, built for people and AI agents.

Explore

All laws
Search the text
Sanctions
Map of connections
Compare UK and EU

Developers

AI agents (MCP)
REST API
Bulk data
API keys

Coverage

United Kingdom
European Union
United States
Canada
Australia
France
Germany
Netherlands
Spain
Austria
Norway
Finland
Switzerland
Ireland

GlobalLawDB is made by GenieAI, London. It is not legal advice: check the official text before relying on it. Text comes from official publishers under their licences, listed on the Data page.

ThemeMatch my systemLightDark

European Union
Stefano Melloni v Ministerio Fiscal (C-399/11)
Judgment
Consideration of the questions referred
Substance
The third question
58

Stefano Melloni v Ministerio Fiscal (C-399/11)

Judgment of 26 Feb 2013law://eu/cjeu/2011/c-399-11/para_58@2026-11-11

58That interpretation of Article 53 of the Charter would undermine the principle of the primacy of EU law inasmuch as it would allow a Member State to disapply EU legal rules which are fully in compliance with the Charter where they infringe the fundamental rights guaranteed by that State’s constitution.

Source: EUR-Lex, © European Union, 1998-2026. Reuse authorised under Decision 2011/833/EU.

Key facts

Court: Court of Justice · Grand Chamber
Case: C-399/11 · ECLI:EU:C:2013:107
Decided: 26 Feb 2013
Procedure: Preliminary reference · referred by the Tribunal Constitucional (Spain)
Applicant: Stefano Melloni
Defendant: Ministerio Fiscal
Rapporteur: M. Safjan
Advocate General: Y. Bot
Bench: 13 judges
V. Skouris, K. Lenaerts, A. Tizzano, R. Silva de Lapuerta, L. Bay Larsen, T. von Danwitz, A. Rosas, E. Jarašiūnas, E. Levits, A. Ó Caoimh, J.-C. Bonichot, M. Safjan, C.G. Fernlund
Language: Spanish
Official: CURIA · EUR-Lex 62011CJ0399

Topics

Charter of Fundamental Rights Judicial cooperation in criminal matters

History · 1 version

26 Feb 2013Reading

Connections

Interprets 1: Charter of Fundamental Rights of the European Union (consolidated 2016)3 provisions
Cited by 24: Proceedings brought by B (C-439/19); Criminal proceedings against Daniel Adam Popławski (C-573/17); Funke Medien NRW GmbH v Bundesrepublik Deutschland (C-469/17); Pelham GmbH and Others v Ralf Hütter and Florian Schneider-Esleben (C-476/17); Spiegel Online GmbH v Volker Beck (C-516/17); Criminal proceedings against PM and Others (C-357/19)2 provisions; Asociaţia 'Forumul Judecătorilor din România' and Others v Inspecţia Judiciară and Others (C-83/19, C-127/19, C-195/19, C-291/19, C-355/19, C-397/19); XC and Others v Generalprokuratur (C-234/17); Google LLC, successor in law to Google Inc. v Commission nationale de l'informatique et des libertés (CNIL) (C-507/17); Caruter s.r.l. v S.R.R. Messina Provincia S.c.P.A. and Others (C-642/20); Staatsanwaltschaft Berlin (C-447/24); ATAU v Procura generale presso la Corte d’appello di Napoli (C-95/24); LM (C-397/22); Request for a preliminary ruling from the Kammergericht Berlin (C-396/22); RQ (C-398/22); LU and PH (C-514/21); Staatsanwaltschaft Köln and Bundesamt für Güterverkehr v KA (C-937/19); „BalevBio“ EOOD v Teritorialna direktsia Severna morska, Agentsia „Mitnitsi“ (C-76/20); TR v Generalstaatsanwaltschaft Hamburg (C-416/20 PPU); Casino, Guichard-Perrachon and Achats Marchandises Casino SAS (AMC), formerly EMC Distribution v European Commission (T-249/17); Intermarché Casino Achats v European Commission (T-254/17); Les Mousquetaires and ITM Entreprises v European Commission (T-255/17); Dumitru-Tudor Dorobantu (C-128/18); Sigma Orionis SA v European Commission (T-48/16)
Cites 13: Charter of Fundamental Rights of the European Union (consolidated 2016)4 provisions; Treaty on European Union (consolidated 2016); Trade Agency Ltd v Seramico Investments Ltd (C-619/10); Winner Wetten GmbH v Bürgermeisterin der Stadt Bergheim (C-409/06); Internationale Handelsgesellschaft mbH v Einfuhr- und Vorratsstelle für Getreide und Futtermittel (11/70); Avis au titre de l'article 300, paragraphe 6, CE (Opinion 1/09); Elliniko Dimosio v Nikolaos Tsapalos and Konstantinos Diamantakis (C-361/02, C-362/02); Commission (Opinion 1/91); Criminal proceedings against Giovanni Dell'Orto (C-467/05); Ignacio Pedro Santesteban Goicoechea (C-296/08); Ciprian Vasile Radu (C-396/11); Ministero dell’Economia e delle Finanze and Agenzia delle Entrate v Paint Graphos Soc. coop. arl, Adige Carni Soc. coop. arl, in liquidation v Agenzia delle Entrate and Ministero dell’Economia e delle Finanze and Ministero delle Finanze v Michele Franchetto (C-78/08, C-79/08, C-80/08); Amministrazione delle finanze dello Stato v Srl Meridionale Industria Salumi and others ; Ditta Italo Orlandi & Figlio and Ditta Vincenzo Divella v Amministrazione delle finanze dello Stato (212/80, 213/80, 214/80, 215/80, 216/80, 217/80)