Court judgment on the Commission communication in reply to the ECI ‘Minority SafePack’ (Case T-158/21)

On 9 November, the General Court confirmed the Commission communication which stated that no further legislation was necessary at that stage to achieve the objectives sought by the ECI ‘Minority SafePack – one million signatures for diversity in Europe’. It dismissed the applicant’s (the ECI organisers' group) action for annulment of that communication.

The Court holds that the actions already taken by the European Union to emphasise the importance of regional or minority languages and to promote cultural and linguistic diversity is sufficient to achieve the objectives of that initiative.

The Court finds that the Commission complied with its obligations to state reasons with regard to the contested communication. It also confirmed that the Commission did not commit any manifest error of assessment as regards the examination of the proposals of this ECI.