European Court of Justice (News)

Cobult
Transport
Rights of airline passengers: the passenger is deemed to have accepted reimbursement of the cost of the ticket by travel voucher where, while filling in a form on the website of the air carrier, he or she has waived reimbursement of the cost of the ticket by a sum of money

Landeshauptstadt Wiesbaden
Area of Freedom, Security and Justice
The mandatory insertion in identity cards of two fingerprints is compatible with the fundamental rights to respect for private life and to protection of personal data

Újpesti Polgármesteri Hivatal
Principles of Community law
Protection of personal data: the supervisory authority of a Member State may order the erasure of unlawfully processed data even in the absence of a prior request by the data subject

Commission v United Kingdom
The United Kingdom has infringed EU law as a result of a judgment of its Supreme Court

D & A Pharma v Commission and EMA
Marketing authorisations for medicinal products: the European Medicines Agency (EMA) must ensure that the experts it consults do not have a conflict of interest

Kolin Inşaat Turizm Sanayi ve Ticaret
Freedom of establishment
AG Collins: only economic operators established in countries party to international agreements on public contracts that bind the EU may rely on provisions of the Public Procurement Directives

IAB Europe
Auctioning of personal data for advertising purposes: the Court of Justice clarifies the rules under the GDPR

Puma v EUIPO - Handelsmaatschappij J. Van Hilst
Intellectual and industrial property
The prior disclosure of a Puma shoe model by the artist Rihanna results in the invalidity of a registered Community design

Kočner v EUROPOL
Principles of Community law
Data processing: Europol and the Member State in which damage has occurred arising from unlawful data processing carried out in the context of cooperation between Europol and that Member State are to be jointly and severally liable for that damage

Public.Resource.Org and Right to Know v Commission and Others
Law governing the institutions
The European harmonised technical standards on the safety of toys should be accessible to EU citizens

Défense Active des Amateurs d’Armes and Others
Approximation of laws
Prohibition of semi-automatic weapons: Member States wishing to maintain previous authorisations for those weapons may also provide for this concerning weapons converted to fire blank ammunition

Visit to the Court of Justice of the European Union by the President of the Czech Republic, Mr Petr Pavel

Bundesamt für Fremdenwesen und Asyl (Conversion religieuse ultérieure)
Area of Freedom, Security and Justice
An asylum application based on a religious conversion taking place subsequently to the departure from a person’s country of origin may not be rejected automatically as abuse

Doctipharma
Agriculture and fisheries
Distance selling of medicinal products without a prescription: the Court clarifies the conditions under which a Member State may prohibit a service connecting pharmacists and customers for the online sale of medicinal products

Scandlines Danmark and Scandlines Deutschland v Commission
State aid
State aid: the General Court dismisses the actions regarding the financing of the Fehmarn Belt fixed link project between Denmark and Germany

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Principles of Community law
According to Advocate General Priit Pikamäe, a database containing personal data may, under certain conditions, be sold in enforcement proceedings, even if the data subjects have not consented to the sale

Romania v Commission
Law governing the institutions
The decision to register partially the European Citizens’ Initiative (ECI) ‘Cohesion policy for the equality of the regions and sustainability of the regional cultures’ is upheld following the dismissal of Romania’s appeal

Deutsche Rentenversicherung Bund
Freedom of movement for persons
Taking into account of child-raising periods completed in another Member State when calculating a pension for total incapacity for work

Direcţia pentru Evidenţa Persoanelor şi Administrarea Bazelor de Date
Citizenship of the Union
Citizenship: the refusal by a Member State to issue to one of its nationals, in addition to a passport, an identity card serving as a travel document, on the sole ground that he or she is domiciled in another Member State, is contrary to EU law

Papouis Dairies and Others v Commission
Agriculture and fisheries
The General Court dismisses an action brought against registration of the name ‘Halloumi’ as a protected designation of origin