Table of contents
I. Legal context
A. Regulation (EC) No1049/2001
B. The Council’s Rules of Procedure
C. The Guidelines for the handling of documents internal to the Council
D. Regulation (EU, Euratom) No883/2013
E. The Financial Regulation
II. The contested regulation
III. Forms of order sought by the parties and the procedure before the Court
IV. The request that certain passages of the Republic of Poland’s application be disregarded
A. Arguments of the parties
B. Findings of the Court
V. The action
A. The first, second, fifth, sixth and eleventh pleas, alleging that the European Union lacked competence to adopt the contested regulation
1. Arguments of the parties
2. Findings of the Court
(a) The legal basis for the contested regulation
(b) Circumvention of Article7 TEU and Article269 TFEU
B. The third plea, alleging infringement of Protocol No2
1. Arguments of the parties
2. Findings of the Court
C. The fourth plea, alleging infringement of the second paragraph of Article296 TFEU
1. Arguments of the parties
2. Findings of the Court
D. The seventh plea, alleging infringement of Article4(1), the second sentence of Article4(2) and Article5(2) TEU
1. Arguments of the parties
2. Findings of the Court
E. The eighth plea, alleging breach of the principle of equality of the Member States before the Treaties and non-respect for their national identities, provided for in the first sentence of Article4(2) TEU
1. Arguments of the parties
2. Findings of the Court
F. The ninth plea, alleging infringement of the principle of legal certainty
1. Arguments of the parties
2. Findings of the Court
G. The tenth plea, alleging infringement of the principle of proportionality
1. Arguments of the parties
2. Findings of the Court
VI. Costs