… parties referred to in
Article
23 of the Statute to submit observations in response to the Advocate General’s Opinion (order of 4 February 2000, Emesa Sugar, C-17/98, EU:C:2000:69, paragraph 2, and judgment of 9 June 2022, Préfet du Gers and Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques, C-673/20, EU:C:2022:449, paragraph 40 and the case-law cited).
29 Second, under the second paragraph of
Article
252 TFEU, the Advocate General, acting with complete
impartiality
and
independence
, …
… issue in the main proceedings did not infringe
Article
17 of the
Charter
of Fundamental Rights of the European Union (‘the
Charter
’).
27 In those circumstances, SIIB requests that a hearing be held so that the question of whether
Article
17 of the
Charter
is relevant to the present case may be the subject of an exchange of arguments.
28 In that regard, it must be noted, first, that the Statute of the Court of Justice of the European Union and the Rules of Procedure make no provision for the interested …
… Article 56 TFEU must therefore be disregarded.
46 Furthermore, since it follows from the first subparagraph of Article 44(1) of Directive 2006/123 that that directive is inapplicable ratione temporis to the dispute in the main proceedings, the question referred for a preliminary ruling must be examined in the light of Article 49 TFEU alone.
47
In those circumstances, the Court holds that, by its question, the referring court asks, in essence, whether Article 49 TFEU must be interpreted as precluding …