Reform of the EU Court of Justice: EU legislators reach provisional agreement
The Council presidency and European Parliament representatives today reached a provisional agreement on a reform of the Statute of the…
EU Court of Justice: Judgments in Cases C-683/21 (Nacionalinis visuomenės sveikatos centras) and C-807/21 (Deutsche Wohnen)
The Court of Justice clarifies the conditions under which national supervisory authorities may impose an administrative fine on one or…
EU Court of Justice: Judgment in Case C-128/22 | NORDIC INFO
In March 2020, the World Health Organisation (WHO) classified the COVID-19 epidemic as a ‘pandemic’. Belgium then prohibited non-essential journeys…
EU Court of Justice: Judgment in Joined Cases C-451/21 P (Luxembourg v Commission and C-454/21 P ) and Engie Global LNG Holding and Others v Commission
The European Commission decided that Luxembourg had granted State aid to the Engie group in connection with tax rulings on…
EU Court of Justice: Judgment in Case C-148/22 – Commune d’Ans
An employee of the municipality of Ans (Belgium), who performs her duties as head of office primarily without being in…
EU Court of Justice: Judgment in Case C-333/22 – Ligue des droits humains (Verification by the supervisory authority of data processing)
A citizen requests the Belgian autorité nationale de sécurité (National Security Authority) to issue him, for professional purposes, security clearance.…
Insight EU Agenda: Upcoming EU meetings and events 13 – 19 November 2023
Meetings of EU Commission Members +++ EU Parliament Agenda +++ Agenda highlights of the EU Defence Council +++ Informal meeting…
EU Court of Justice: two judges and an advocate-general reappointed
The representatives of the governments of the member states today reappointed Mr Constantinos Lycourgos and Mr Jan Passer as judges…
EU Court of Justice: Advocate General’s Opinion in Case C-670/22 – Staatsanwaltschaft Berlin (EncroChat)
EncroChat was an encrypted telecommunications network offering its users near-perfect anonymity: the device had no camera, microphone, GPS or USB…
EU Court of Justice: Judgment in Case C-238/22 – LATAM Airlines Group
Finding it impossible to check in for the flight from Frankfurt am Main to Madrid that she had reserved for…
EU Court of Justice: Judgment in Case C-307/22 – FT (Copies of medical records)
Luxembourg, 26 October 2023 PRESS RELEASE No 161/23 Protection of personal data: a patient has...
EU Court of Justice Judgment in Case C-660/20 – Lufthansa CityLine
These trigger thresholds are identical for full-time and part-time pilots. The pilot argues that the thresholds should be reduced by…
Trade mark infringement: EU Court of Justice Judgment in Case C-655/21 G. ST. T.
Criminal proceedings for the infringement of trade marks were brought in Bulgaria against the owner of an undertaking selling clothes.…
EU General Court annuls additional customs duties on certain lighters from the U.S.
Zippo Manufacturing claims to be the only known manufacturer of metal mechanical windproof lighters in the United States. A significant…
EU Court of Justice Judgment in Case C-286/22 – KBC Verzekeringen
Since the concept of a ‘vehicle’ in the relevant Belgian legislation corresponds to that in an EU Directive relating to…
EU General Court annuls the EU Commission’s decision against Spanish tax scheme
The General Court annuls the Commission’s decision declaring the Spanish tax scheme on the deduction for indirect acquisitions of shareholdings…
Judgment of the EU General Court in Case T-131/16 RENV – Belgium v EU Commission
Since 2005, Belgium has applied a tax scheme that exempts certain ‘excess’ profits of Belgian entities which form part of…
EU Court of Justice Judgment in Case C-27/22 – Volkswagen Group Italia and Volkswagen AG
The Court considers that the limitation of the application of the principle ne bis in idem is allowed, so as…
Refusal of the maternity supplement: EU Court of Justice Judgment in Case C-113/22 – TGSS
By its judgment delivered today, the Court of Justice notes first of all that, where discrimination contrary to EU law…
EU Court of Justice: Advocate General’s opinion in Case C-115/22 – NADA e.a.
In today’s Opinion, Advocate General Tamara Ćapeta first addresses the admissibility of that reference. The Advocate General considers that the…
EU Court of Justice: Judgment in Case C-83/22 – Tuk Tuk Travel
In today’s judgment, the Court of Justice points out first of all that the directive obliges a travel organiser to…
WS and Others v Frontex: Judgment of the EU Court of Justice in Case T-600/21
In 2016, a number of Syrian refugees arrived on the Greek island of Milos. After having been transferred to the…
EU Court of Justice: Judgment in Case C-689/21 | Loss of Danish nationality
Denmark may, in principle, provide that its nationals born abroad who have never lived on its territory lose Danish nationality…
EU Court of Justice: Judgment in Case C-137/21 | Parliament v Commission (Visa exemption)
The question whether nationals of a given third country need a visa when crossing the external borders of a Member…
EU Court of Justice: Judgment in joined cases C-615/20 and C-671/20 | Lifting of a judge’s immunity and his or her suspension from duties
In today's judgment, the Court observes that that resolution was based on national provisions that the Court recently held to…
EU Court of Justice: Judgment in Case T-8/21 | IFIC Holding v Commission
IFIC Holding AG is a German company whose shares are held indirectly by the Iranian State and which itself has…
EU Court of Justice: Judgment in Case C-252/21 | Meta Platforms and Others
Meta Platforms Ireland operates the online social network Facebook within the European Union. When they register with Facebook, its users…
EU Court of Justice: Advocate General’s Opinion in Case C-61/22 | Landeshauptstadt Wiesbaden
Seized in this context, the Administrative Court, Wiesbaden, harbours doubts as to the validity of Regulation 2019/1157 and, therefore, for…
EU Court of Justice: Judgment in Joined Cases C-6/21 P and C-16/21 P | Germany and Estonia v Pharma Mar and EU Commission
Based on the negative opinion of the EMA’s Committee for Medicinal Products for Human Use (EMA) , the Commission rejected,…
EU Court of Justice: Judgment in Case C-579/21 | Pankki S
In 2014, an employee of the bank Pankki S who was, at the same time, a customer of that bank,…
EU Court of Justice: Advocate General’s Opinion in Case C-281/22 | G. K. e.a. (European Public Prosecutor’s Office)
Although the main investigation is taking place in Germany, the EPPO deemed it necessary to undertake a cross-border investigation in…
EU Court of Justice: Advocate General’s Opinion in Case C-588/21 P | Public.Resource.Org
Public.Resource.Org Inc. and Right to Know CLG are two non-profit organisations whose focus is to make the law freely accessible…
EU Court of Justice: Advocate General’s Opinion in Case C-330/22 | Friends of the Irish Environment
Overfishing: according to Advocate General Ćapeta, the Common Fisheries Policy Basic Regulation requires the Council to fix fishing limits at…
EU Court of Justice: Advocate General’s Opinion in Case C-333/22 | Ligue des droits humains (Verification of processing of data by the supervisory authority)
A broad and blanket exemption to the right of direct access to personal data in criminal matters is not compatible…
EU Court of Justice: Judgment of the Court in Cases C-499/21 P, C-501/21 P, and C-502/21 P
Definitive dismissal of the actions brought by British citizens challenging the loss of their rights as EU citizens as a…
EU Court of Justice: Judgment in Case C-411/22 | Thermalhotel Fontana
The freedom of movement for workers precludes the legislation of a Member State, which makes compensation conditional on the imposition…
EU Court of Justice: Advocate General’s Opinion in Case C-755/21 P | Kočner v Europol
Advocate General Rantos: Europol and a Member State in which damage occurred in relation to unlawful data processing can be…
EU Court of Justice: Judgment in Case C-520/21 | Bank M. (Consequences of the annulment of the contract)
EU law does not preclude, in the event of the annulment of a mortgage loan agreement vitiated by unfair terms,…
EU Court of Justice: Judgment in Case C-49/22 | Austrian Airlines (Repatriation flight)
COVID-19 pandemic: a repatriation flight organised in the context of consular assistance does not constitute a re-routed flight that the…
EU Court of Justice: Advocate General’s Opinion in Case C-457/21 P | Commission v Amazon.com and Others
Tax rulings: Advocate General Kokott is of the view that the Commission erred in deciding that Luxembourg had granted unauthorised…
EU Court of Justice: Advocate General’s Opinion in Case C-376/22 | Google Ireland and Others
According to Advocate General Szpunar, platforms like Google, Meta Platforms and Tik Tok may not have additional obligations imposed on…
EU Court of Justice: Judgment in Case C-290/21 | AKM (Supply of satellite packages in Austria)
Luxembourg, 25 May 2023 PRESS RELEASE No 86/23 Cross-border satellite retransmission of programmes: the broadcasting...
EU Court of Justice: Judgment in Case C-575/21 | WertInvest Hotelbetrieb
Luxembourg, 25 May 2023 PRESS RELEASE No 87/23 The requirement to carry out an environmental...
EU Court of Justice: Judgment of the Court in Case T-2/21 | Emmentaler Switzerland v EUIPO
Luxembourg, 24 May 2023 PRESS RELEASE No 84/23 The term ‘emmentaler’ cannot be protected as...
EU Court of Justice: Judgment of the Court in Case T-312/20 – EVH v Commission
Luxembourg, 17 May 2023 PRESS RELEASE No 81/23 The action brought by the German electricity...
EU Court of Justice: Judgment in Case C-176/22 | BK and ZhP
Luxembourg, 17 May 2023 PRESS RELEASE No 80/23 A request for a preliminary ruling made...
EU Court of Justice: Judgment in Case C-97/22 | DC (Withdrawal after performance of the contract)
Luxembourg, 17 May 2023 PRESS RELEASE No 79/23 Failure to provide information on the right...
EU Court of Justice: Judgment in Joined Cases T-34/21 | Ryanair v Commission and T-87/21 | Condor Flugdienst v Commission
Luxembourg, 10 May 2023 PRESS RELEASE No 75/23 The General Court annuls the decision of...
EU Court of Justice: Judgment in Case T‑238/21, RyanAir DAC v EU Commission
Luxembourg, 10 May 2023 THE GENERAL COURT (Tenth Chamber), composed, at the time of the...
EU Court of Justice: Judgment of the Court in Case C-40/21 | Agenția Națională de Integritate
Luxembourg, 4 May 2023 PRESS RELEASE No 69/23 Fight against corruption: EU law does not...