Competitive seminar concerning the action for annulment of Regulation 2020/2092 on a general regime of conditionality for the protection of the Union budget – A.y. 2021/2022

Additional activity within the Classes on EU Law; optional; first semester. Prof. in charge: Prof. Jacopo Alberti

The Seminar consists in a Moot Court inspired by the actions brought before the Court of Justice by the governments of Hungary (C-156/21) and Republic of Poland (C-157/21) against Regulation no. 2020/2092, which subjects the implementation of the Union budget to a conditionality regime.

During the academic year 2021/2022, the European Union Law Course’s students were divided into different teams representing, respectively, the applicants (Republic of Poland and Hungary) and the defendants (the European Parliament and the Council of European Union).The competitive seminar consisted in a written and an oral proceedings phase. During the first phase every Team submitted its own written pleadings, while, during the oral phase, the students presented their legal arguments before the members of the Chair of EU law, who assumed the role of Court of Justice’s judges.

A lecture about the two actions of annulment in the light of the protection of the Union’s budget in case of generalised deficiencies as regards the rule of law in Member States (Rule of Law Conditionality) introduced the Seminar [Key-note speech by Prof. Bruno Nascimbene; Interventions: Prof. Jacques Ziller and Prof. Antonia Baraggia].

The Seminar was extremely helpful for the students in order to understand practical aspects of proceedings before the Court of Justice of the European Union.