European Court of Justice (News)

flightright (Transport aérien de Stuttgart à Kansas City)
Transport
The right to compensation for air passengers subject to long delays applies to connecting flights made up of flights operated by separate operating air carriers

Szef Krajowej Administracji Skarbowej
Taxation
Les services financiers fournis au titre d’un contrat de sous-participation sont exonérés de la TVA

Spain v Commission
State aid
Advocate General Pikamäe proposes that the judgment of the General Court and the Commission's decision on the ‘Spanish tax leasing scheme’ should be partially annulled

LOT (Indemnisation imposée par l’autorité administrative)
Transport
The national authority responsible for the enforcement of the Air Passengers Rights Regulation may, in response to individual complaints, compel a carrier to pay compensation to passengers

Agrofert v Parliament
Law governing the institutions
The Parliament’s decision to refuse access to two documents relating to the investigation against Mr Andrej Babiš, the former Czech Prime Minister, on misuse of European funds and potential conflicts of interest is valid.

Bundesrepublik Deutschland (Suspension administrative de la décision de transfert)
Area of Freedom, Security and Justice
The suspension, due to the Covid-19 pandemic, of the implementation of a decision to transfer an asylum seeker to the Member State responsible does not have the effect of interrupting the six-month time limit for transfer

Országos Idegenrendeszeti Főigazgatóság and Others
Area of Freedom, Security and Justice
Withdrawal of international protection further to a danger to national security: EU law precludes Hungarian legislation which provides that the person concerned or his or her legal representative can access the case file only after obtaining authorisation to that end, and without being provided with the grounds of the decision

France v Commission
Agriculture and fisheries
Financement de la PAC et aides aux États membres : le Tribunal rejette le recours de la France contestant une correction financière d’un montant de 46 millions d’euros proposée par la Commission

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

Meta Platforms and Others (Conditions générales d’utilisation d’un réseau social)
Principles of Community law
According to Advocate General Rantos, a competition authority may, in exercising its powers, take account of the compatibility of a commercial practice with the General Data Protection Regulation

VD
Freedom of establishment
The general and indiscriminate retention of traffic data by operators providing electronic communications services for a year from the date on which they were recorded is not authorised, as a preventive measure, for the purpose of combating market abuse offences including insider dealing

SpaceNet
Approximation of laws
The Court of Justice confirms that EU law precludes the general and indiscriminate retention of traffic and location data, except in the case of a serious threat to national security

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

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

Partial renewal and entry into service of three new members of the General Court

Fenix International
Taxation
According to Advocate General Rantos, the provision of the regulation implementing the VAT Directive providing that an online intermediary platform is, in principle, liable to pay VAT is valid

FTI Touristik (Voyage à forfait aux Îles Canaries) and C-407/21 UFC - Que choisir et CLCV
Approximation of laws
Tourism in times of pandemic : according to Advocate General Medina, if tourist operators are not able to honour the terms of a package travel contract, the pandemic does not exempt them from the obligation to reduce the price and, if it is cancelled, to provide a cash refund unless exceptional difficulties are proven to exist

HA.EN.
Taxation
Une pratique administrative fiscale nationale privant les assujettis ayant acquis un bien immeuble dans le cadre d’une procédure de vente forcée de leur droit à déduction de TVA est, en l’absence d’une fraude ou abus de droit, contraire au droit de l’Union

Fossil (Gibraltar)
State aid
Corporate income tax in Gibraltar: the national authorities responsible for the recovery of aid classified as unlawful may apply a domestic provision in order to prevent double taxation

Google and Alphabet v Commission (Google Android)
Competition
The General Court largely confirms the Commission’s decision that Google imposed unlawful restrictions on manufacturers of Android mobile devices and mobile network operators in order to consolidate the dominant position of its search engine