The European Commission criticizes Amnesty’s law, but does not see that it affects the economic interests of the EU | Spain

The European Commission has sent a critical report with the Amnesty Law to the Court of Justice of the European Union (TJUE), although it does not see that this rule affects European funds. The report – re -lative to the preliminary ruling raised by the Court of Accounts – states that “it does not seem that the Amnesty Law effectively respond to a general objective of interest recognized by the Union ”, which contradicts the content of the Judgment project that the Constitutional has prepared for its deliberation Throughout this June.

However, the opinion questions that these types of problems should be raised if the economic interests of the European Union are not affected by the behavior followed by the leaders of the Proces to promote your independence plans, or for the forgiveness implies the law questioned. Under these conditions – the report explains – « should not be concluded that it has been answered » to some of the questions asked by the counselor of the Elena Hernáez Court of Accounts, appointed at the proposal of the PP. Such questions referred to whether the amnesty law implied a Violation of the right to equality and the principle of legal certainty. The Commission explains that these issues are in the possibility that the EU Court of Justice is raised in its resolution if financial interests of the Union during the Union were affected during the Proces.

The opinion is critical when it emphasizes that the law was agreed with parties that are “beneficiaries” of the measures contemplated by this rule, which implies that the law “seems to constitute a self -love” for two reasons: because the beneficiaries were essential to be approved in Congress and because they were “part of a political agreement to achieve the investiture of the Government of Spain”.

The European Commission has refused to pronounce on the content of the brief sent for its legal services to the TJUE: « We do not comment. Court ”. Manuel V. Gómez reports.