Translation of "Exigence d'un débat contradictoire " (French → English) :

adversarial context

public discussion | open debate | debating assembly

question-and-answer

Calls for the revised Energy Efficiency Directive to be in line with the EU’s climate protection targets and the COP 21 agreement goal; emphasises that the continuation and an improvement of existing measures and the eradication of contradictions and loopholes must be part of the revision of the Directive in order to ensure regulatory predictability and enable investor confidence in the long term.

In the interests of the proper administration of justice, it may also be desirable for the reference to be made only after both sides have been heard.

It is, however, desirable that a decision to make a reference for a preliminary ruling should be taken when the national proceedings have reached a stage at which the referring court or tribunal is able to define the legal and factual context of the case, so that the Court of Justice has available to it all the information necessary to check, where appropriate, that European Union law applies to the main proceedings. In the interests of the proper administration of justice, it may also be desirable for the reference to be made only after both sides have been heard.

The judge's decision (which can be appealed) is taken after consulting the representative of the prison administration, following an adversarial debate in chambers, where the submissions of the Public Prosecutor and the comments of the offender or his/her counsel are heard.