General Court (Intermediate Chamber) 30 September 2026, T-140/23 (Dunaújvárosi Egyetem v Council of the European Union.)

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In an action brought under Article 263 TFEU by Dunaújvárosi Egyetem, supported by Hungary, the applicant sought the annulment of Article 2(2) of Council Implementing Decision (EU) 2022/2506, which prohibited the European Commission from entering into new legal commitments under direct or indirect management with Hungarian public interest trusts established under Hungarian Law IX of 2021 (közfeladatot ellátó közérdekű vagyonkezelő alapítványokról szóló 2021. évi IX. törvény) or entities maintained by them. The decisive legal issues concerned whether the measure complied with Article 4(1) of Regulation (EU, Euratom) 2020/2092, the obligation to state reasons, legal certainty, legitimate expectations, rights of the defence, proportionality, the right to operate on an undistorted market under Article 16 of the Charter of Fundamental Rights of the European Union, equal treatment, the presumption of innocence, and the legality of Regulation 2020/2092. The General Court dismissed the action in its entirety, holding that the Council and the Commission established systemic breaches of the rule of law posing a serious risk to the Union budget and that the contested measure satisfied all procedural and substantive legal requirements.AI