X v Presidenza del Consiglio dei Ministri*

Pending case. Request for a preliminary ruling lodged on 13 April 2015

Questions referred

Must Directive 2004/80/EC relating to compensation to crime victims (Article 12(2)) be interpreted as precluding national implementing legislation which refers, with regard to the payment of compensation chargeable to the State, to special legal provisions in favour of victims of crime, but does not grant to victims of ordinary violent crimes access to a substantive system of compensation of general scope and governs only procedural aspects, in cross-border cases, of access to that system?

Must Directive 2004/80/EC (Article 12(2)) therefore be interpreted as requiring a substantive system of protection of general scope, provided by the State, or in any event laying down a minimum level of such protection and, if that is so, what are the criteria for determining that level?