The car manufacturer Volkswagen cannot be penalised in Italy following the Dieselgate scandal after having been penalised in Germany, said the Advocate General of the Court of Justice of the European Union, Manuel Campos Sánchez-Bordona, in his opinion delivered on Thursday 30 March (case C-27/22).
The Italian Council of State asked the Court of Justice to interpret the ‘ne bis in idem’ principle enshrined in the EU Charter of Fundamental Rights (Article 50), which prohibits the...