States across Europe are continuing to make progress on implementing judgments from the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR), despite the Covid-19 pandemic, according to the latest annual report from the Council of Europe’s Committee of Ministers. However, further efforts are needed to tackle systemic issues highlighted by the ECHR, including ill-treatment or deaths caused […]
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Commission refers the UK to the European Court of Justice over alleged unlawful aid
The European Commission has decided to refer the United Kingdom to the Court of Justice of the European Union for failing to fully recover illegal State aid of up to around €100 million, granted as a tax exemption for passive interest and royalties in Gibraltar, as required by a Commission decision. This case relates to […]
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A court of a Member State must declare that the Member State has not correctly transposed a EU directive
UH, an Irish citizen and a native Irish speaker from the Galway Gaeltacht (the Irish-speaking region of Co. Galway, Ireland), claimed that the information accompanying veterinary medicinal products was written exclusively in the English language. He takes the view that Directive 2001/82 1 requires that information to be in both of the official languages of […]
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Ruling against Spanish football for alleged illegal aid scheme
A Spanish law adopted in 1990 obliged all Spanish professional sports clubs to convert into public limited sports companies, with the exception of professional sports clubs that had achieved a positive financial balance during the financial years preceding adoption of that law. Fútbol Club Barcelona, and three other professional football clubs which came within that […]
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Successive amendments to the Polish Law on the National Council of the Judiciary are liable to infringe EU law
By resolutions adopted in August 2018, the National Council of the Judiciary, decided not to present to the President of the Republic of Poland proposals for the appointment of five persons to positions as judges at the Supreme Court and to propose other candidates for those positions. The appellants lodged appeals against these resolutions before […]
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Spain is ordered to pay a lump sum of € 15 million and a daily penalty payment of € 89.000
The Commission asked the Court of Justice to declare that Spain has failed to fulfil its obligations under the Directive on the protection of personal data The Commission considers that that Member State failed to adopt national measures transposing the Directive and to notify those measures. It, therefore, asked the Court to impose on Spain, […]
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CJEU refuses to apply interim measures for Junqueras to sit in EP
The appeal against the order of the Vice-President of the General Court dismissing Mr Junqueras i Vies’s application for interim measures is also dismissed By this order, the Vice-President of the Court of Justice dismisses Mr Junqueras i Vies’s appeal. The Vice-President confirms that, when a seat is vacant because the mandate of a Member […]
Read MoreThe TJUE agrees with Messi and endorses the registration of his trademark
The Court of Justice dismisses the appeals brought by EUIPO and a Spanish company against the judgment of the General Court authorising football player Lionel Messi to register the trade mark ‘MESSI’ for sports equipment and clothing In August 2011, the footballer Lionel Andrés Messi Cuccittini filed an application with the European Union Intellectual Property […]
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The CJEU rules against the Italian law which prevents Vivendi from acquiring 28% of the capital of Mediaset
That provision constitutes a prohibited impediment to the right of establishment as it is not appropriate for achieving the objective of protecting pluralism of information In 2016, the French company Vivendi SA, which is the parent company of a group active in the media sector and in the creation and distribution of audiovisual content, launched […]
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