European Court of Justice (News)

WebGroup Czech Republic and NKL Associates
Advocate General Szpunar: a measure constituting a corollary of the provisions of criminal law or necessary in order to ensure the effectiveness of roadside checks comes under the country of origin principle, as provided for in the Directive on electronic commerce

Election of the Judges called upon to perform the duties of an Advocate General within the General Court in dealing with requests for a preliminary ruling

Election of the Presidents of Chambers of the General Court of the European Union

Savvas Papasavvas is re-elected Vice-President of the General Court of the European Union

Marc van der Woude is re-elected President of the General Court of the European Union

Entry into office of new Members of the Court of Justice and the General Court of the European Union and partial renewal of the General Court

Aucrinde
Area of Freedom, Security and Justice
Advocate General Tamara Ćapeta: the Charter does not prohibit proving paternity through post-mortem genetic sampling

Bervidi
Social policy
Discrimination at work: the rights of persons with disabilities to protection against indirect discrimination extend to parents of children with disabilities

MSIG
Principle ne bis in idem: a person cannot be prosecuted in one Member State for an act of terrorism for which he or she has already been convicted in another Member State, even though the offence has a different classification in each of those Member States

Banco Santander
Freedom of movement for persons
Banco Popular: the rights arising from actions for a declaration of nullity and for damages brought before the resolution of that bank are enforceable against Banco Santander

Austria v Commission
State aid
The Court of Justice annuls the Commission’s decision to approve aid from Hungary for the Paks II nuclear power station

Positive Group v Council
Common foreign and security policy
War in Ukraine: the General Court upholds the restrictive measures against Positive Group PAO, an entity operating in the Russian IT sector with a license issued by Russia’s domestic intelligence services

Meta Platforms Ireland v Commission
Approximation of laws
Digital Services Act: the General Court annuls the Commission’s decisions setting the supervisory fee applicable to Facebook, Instagram and TikTok

Austria v Commission
Austria’s action against the inclusion of nuclear energy and fossil gas in the sustainable investment scheme dismissed

Puigdemont i Casamajó and Others v Parliament
Advocate General Szpunar proposes that three grounds of appeal brought by Mr Antoni Comín against the judgment of the General Court dismissing his action against the waiver of his immunity by the European Parliament be rejected

Shipov
Advocate General Richard de la Tour: the Member State of origin of a transgender person is obliged to issue identity documents consistent with the persons lived gender identity

Safi
Advocate General Tamara Ćapeta: EU citizenship encompasses the right not to move

Royal Football Club Seraing
Football: the Court affirms the right, for clubs and players in particular, to obtain effective judicial review of arbitral awards made by the Court of Arbitration for Sport

Alace
Area of Freedom, Security and Justice
International protection: the designation of a third country as a ‘safe country of origin’ must be amenable to effective judicial review

The Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth
Principles of Community law
Right to asylum: A Member State may not plead an unforeseeable influx of applicants for international protection in order to evade its obligation to cover asylum seekers’ basic needs