Insight EU Finance Monitoring Weekly 25 – 29 November 2024
Here are the headlines from last week’s Insight EU Finance Monitoring, published on Friday night. We provide the headlines with…
EU Court of Justice: Lenaerts re-elected President, von Danwitz elected Vice President
On Tuesday, Koen Lenaerts (Belgium) has been re-elected by his peers to serve as President of the Court of Justice…
Partial renewal of the Court of Justice and new Members of the General Court
Today the EU celebrates the partial renewal of its Court of Justice and new Members of the General Court. See,…
EU Commission: Hungary’s law on the ‘Defence of Sovereignty’ breaches EU law
The EU Commission has decided to refer Hungary to the Court of Justice of the European Union considering its national…
Luxembourg Forum: U.S. Supreme Court delegation visits the EU Court of Justice
The visit served to strengthen the close and historic ties between the Supreme Court of the United States and the…
Judgment of the EU Court of Justice in Joined Cases Illumina and Grail v EU Commission (updated)
Illumina-Grail merger: The EU Court of Justice sets aside the judgment of the EU General Court and annuls the decisions…
Changes of the Rules of Procedure of the EU Court of Justice and the EU General Court
The new rules implement the amendments to the Statute of the Court of Justice of the European Union and modernise…
EU Court of Justice transfers preliminary rulings in six areas to the EU General Court
The implementation of this transfer from the Court of Justice to the General Court of part of the jurisdiction to…
Air passenger rights: EU Commission publishes new guidelines for more clarity
Today's revision notably takes into account rulings by the Court of Justice since 2016 that clarify certain provisions, allowing for…
EU Court of Justice: EU Member States appoint three judges and an advocate-general
The term of office of Mr Irmantas Jarukaitis as judge was renewed. Mr Bernardus Smulders and Mr Fredrik Schalin were…
EU Body for Ethical Standards: MEPs support interinstitutional deal
The agreement was reached between eight EU institutions and bodies. It provides for the joint creation of a new Body…
EU Court of Justice: Former Czech rules on limitation are incompatible with EU law
Infringements of EU competition law: the former Czech rules on limitation are incompatible with EU law. Those rules make it…
EU Court of Justice: Order of the VP of the Court in Case C-639/23 P(R) (Commission v Amazon Services Europe)
Amazon Services Europe belongs to the Amazon group. Its business activities comprise online retail and other services such as cloud…
EU Court of Justice: Advocate General’s Opinion in Case C-399/22 (Confédération paysanne)
Faced with an implicit refusal to issue that order, the Confédération paysanne initiated an action before the French Council of…
EU Court of Justice: Advocate General’s Opinion in Joined Cases C-778/21 P and C-798/21 P (Commission, Council, Front Polisario)
In her Opinion, Advocate General Tamara Ćapeta proposes that the Court reject these appeals and uphold the General Court’s judgment…
EU Court of Justice: Judgment of the Court in Case C-10/22 (LEA)
In its judgment, the Court replies that, in so far as the national legislation at issue does not allow independent…
EU Court of Justice: Judgment of the Court in Case C-76/23 (Cobult)
An airline passenger reserved a flight from Fortaleza (Brazil) to Frankfurt am Main with a scheduled connection in Lisbon, to…
EU Court of Justice: Judgment of the Court in Case C-61/22 (Landeshauptstadt Wiesbaden)
A German citizen is disputing before a German court the refusal by the City of Wiesbaden to issue him with…
Reform of the Statute of the Court of Justice adopted
The Council today gave its final green light to the reform of the Statute of the Court of Justice of…
EU Court of Justice: Judgment in Case C-604/22 (IAB Europe)
In its judgment, the Court of Justice confirms that the TC String contains information concerning an identifiable user and therefore…
EU Court of Justice: Judgment in Case C-234/21 (Défense Active des Amateurs d’Armes and Others)
A dispute was raised between the Association Defence Active des Amateurs d’Armes ASBL (DAAA) and two Belgian citizens, on the…
EU Court of Justice: Judgment in Case C-588/21 P (Public.Resource.Org and Right to Know v Commission and Others)
On appeal, the Court of Justice today sets aside the judgment of the General Court and annuls the Commission’s decision.…
EU Court of Justice: Judgment in Case C-755/21 P (Kočner v Europol)
Ruling on the dispute itself, the Court of Justice holds that the unlawful data processing in the form of the…
EU Court of Justice: Judgment in Case C-222/22 (Bundesamt für Fremdenwesen und Asyl, subsequent religious conversion)
The Austrian administrative court asks the Court of Justice whether such a condition is compatible with the Qualification Directive. The…
EU Court of Justice: Judgment in Case C-491/21 (Direcţia pentru Evidenţa Persoanelor şi Administrarea Bazelor de Date)
The Romanian legislation establishes a difference in treatment between Romanian citizens domiciled abroad and those who are domiciled in Romania.…
EU Court of Justice: Judgment in Case C-283/21 (Deutsche Rentenversicherung Bund)
A German citizen who lived in the Netherlands and now resides in Germany receives a pension for total incapacity for…
EU Court of Justice: Judgment in Case C-715/20 (X, lack of reasons for termination)
EU law precludes national legislation which allows an employer not to state the reasons for the termination of a fixed-term…
Admissibility of a subsequent asylum application: EU Court of Justice Judgment in Case C-216/22 Bundesrepublik Deutschland
A Syrian national who left his country in 2012 and feared being recalled to serve in the armed forces or…
EU Commission refers Belgium and Luxembourg to court over procedural rights
On 23 September 2021, the Commission sent a letter of formal notice to Belgium concluding that the following parts of…
EU Court of Justice: Judgment in Case C-251/22 P (Scania and Others v Commission)
Those infringements consisted in their participation, from January 1997 to January 2011, with their competitors, in collusive arrangements aimed at…
EU Court of Justice: Judgment of the Court in Case C-442/22 (Dyrektor Izby Administracji Skarbowej w Lublinie)
Between January 2010 and April 2014, the employee of a company established in Poland operating a petrol station issued 1,679…
EU Court of Justice: Judgment in Case C-255/21 (Reti Televisive Italiane)
Reti Televisive Italiane SpA (RTI) is an Italian company that provides audiovisual media services and is the owner of the…
EU Court of Justice: Judgment in Case C-118/22 (Direktor na Glavna direktsia „Natsionalna politsia“ pri MVR – Sofia)
In Bulgaria, an entry was made in the police records concerning a person in the course of a criminal investigation…
EU Court of Justice: Judgment in Case C-560/20 (Family reunification with a minor refugee)
The Court of Justice clarifies that an unaccompanied minor refugee has the right to family reunification with his or her…
EU Court of Justice: Judgments in Cases C-474/22 and C-54/23 (Laudamotion and Ryanair)
A delay of more than three hours was announced in respect of two flights from Düsseldorf to Palma de Mallorca…
EU Court of Justice: Judgment in Case C-334/22 (Audi)
The Court leaves it to the national court to determine, first, whether the element of the radiator grille in question…
EU Court of Justice: Judgment in Case C-451/22 (RTL Nederland and RTL Nieuws)
On 17 July 2014, 298 people lost their lives when Malaysia Airlines flight MH17 from Amsterdam (Netherlands) to Kuala Lumpur…
EU Court of Justice: Advocate General’s Opinion in Case C-240/22 P (Commission / Intel Corporation)
In May 2009, the Commission imposed a fine of €1.06 billion on Intel, a US-based microchip manufacturer, for having abused…
EU Court of Justice: Judgment in Case C-33/22 (Österreichische Datenschutzbehörde)
That committee of inquiry heard a witness during a hearing covered by the media. The minutes of that hearing were…
EU Court of Justice: Judgment in Case C-621/21 (Women who are victims of domestic violence)
Women, as a whole, may be regarded as belonging to a social group, within the meaning of Directive 2011/95, and…
EU Court of Justice: Advocate General’s Opinion in Case C-48/22 P (Google and Alphabet v Commission)
In its decision of 27 June 2017, the Commission found that Google had given preference to the results of its…
EU Court of Justice: EU Advocate General’s Opinion in Joint Cases C-662/22, C-667/22, Case C-663/22, C-664/22, C-666/22, Case C-665/22
In Italy, providers of online intermediation services and search engines, such as Airbnb, Google, Amazon and Vacation Rentals are subject…
Stateless person of Palestinian origin: EU Advocate General’s Opinion in Case C-563/22
In such a situation, evidence of such general living conditions suffices. Applicants cannot be required to demonstrate that those general…
EU Court of Justice: Advocate General’s Opinions in Cases C-808/21 and C-814/21
The laws in force in Poland and the Czech Republic grant the right to become a member of a political…
EU Court of Justice: Judgment in Case C-718/21 (Krajowa Rada Sądownictwa)
In Poland, judges who wish to continue to perform their duties after reaching the age of retirement are required to…
EU Court of Justice: Judgment in Case C-261/22 – GN (Ground for refusal based on the best interests of the child)
A woman was convicted in absentia in Belgium to a term of imprisonment of five years for the offences of…
EU Court of Justice: Judgment in Case C-281/22 – G.K. and Others (European Public Prosecutor’s Office)
The EPPO has powers of investigation and prosecution of crimes affecting the financial interests of the Union. It is organised…
EU Court of Justice: Judgment in Case C-167/22 – Commission v Denmark (Maximum parking time)
In 2018, Denmark laid down a rule limiting the maximum parking time at public rest areas along the Danish motorway…
EU Court of Justice: Judgment in Case C-297/22 P (United Parcel Service v Commission)
UPS requests that the Court of Justice set aside the 2022 judgment of the General Court. By its judgment delivered…
EU Court of Justice: Judgment in Case C-488/21 (Chief Appeals Officer and Others)
A direct relative in the ascending line, since he or she is dependent on a worker who is a Union…