European Court of Justice (News)

Commission v Denmark (AOP Feta)
Agriculture and fisheries
By failing to stop the use of the designation ‘Feta’ for cheese intended for export to third countries, Denmark has failed to fulfil its obligations under EU law

Procureur général près la cour d'appel d'Angers
DFON
Mandat d’arrêt européen et condition de la double incrimination du fait : une correspondance parfaite n’est pas requise entre les éléments constitutifs de l’infraction concernée dans l’État membre d’émission et dans l’État membre d’exécution

Universität Bremen v REA
Principles of Community law
A law professor may represent his own university before the General Court and the Court of Justice of the European Union

Illumina v Commission
Competition
The General Court upholds the decisions of the Commission accepting a referral request from France, as joined by other Member States, asking it to assess the proposed acquisition of Grail by Illumina

Nord Stream 2 v Parliament and Council
Energy
The Court declares the action brought by Nord Stream 2 AG against the directive extending certain rules of the internal market in natural gas to pipelines from third countries to be partially admissible

LKW WALTER
Area of Freedom, Security and Justice
Le droit de l’Union s’oppose à une réglementation en vertu de laquelle le point de départ du délai d’une semaine pendant lequel le destinataire peut refuser de recevoir un acte à signifier ou à notifier coïncide avec le délai pour exercer un recours contre ledit acte dans cet État membre

Airbnb Ireland and Airbnb Payments UK
SERV
Tax regime for short-term rentals imposing obligations on property intermediaries: the freedom to provide services does not preclude the obligation to collect and transmit information or to withhold tax

Pensionsversicherungsanstalt (Périodes d’éducation d’enfants à l’étranger)
Freedom of movement for persons
Child-raising periods completed in other Member States are to be taken into account in the calculation of an old-age pension

Les Éditions P. Amaury v EUIPO - Golden Balls (BALLON D'OR)
Intellectual and industrial property
The General Court annuls EUIPO’s decision revoking the EU trade mark BALLON D’OR in respect of entertainment services

Puigdemont i Casamajó and Comín i Oliveres v Parliament
Law governing the institutions
The action brought by Mr Carles Puigdemont i Casamajó and Mr Antoni Comín i Oliveres against the refusal of the former President of the Parliament to recognise their status as Members of the European Parliament and their associated rights is inadmissible

Entry into office of two new Members of the General Court of the European Union

Valstybės sienos apsaugos tarnyba
Area of Freedom, Security and Justice
Le droit de l’Union s’oppose à la législation lituanienne en vertu de laquelle, en cas d’afflux massif d’étrangers, un demandeur d’asile peut être placé en rétention au seul motif qu’il se trouve en séjour irrégulier

Hijos de Moisés Rodríguez González v EUIPO - Irlande and Ornua (La Irlandesa 1943)
Intellectual and industrial property
Une marque contenant un terme relatif à une provenance géographique utilisée par le passé qui est ensuite enregistrée et utilisée pour des produits qui n’ont plus cette provenance est susceptible d’induire les consommateurs en erreur quant à la provenance géographique de ces produits

Commission v Spain
Law governing the institutions
Responsabilité de l’État pour les dommages causés aux particuliers par les violations du droit de l’Union : l’Espagne a manqué aux obligations qui lui incombent en vertu du principe d’effectivité

Ryanair v Commission (Finnair II; Covid-19)
State aid
The action seeking annulment of the decision by the Commission to approve aid granted by Finland to the airline Finnair is dismissed in its entirety

Anglo Austrian AAB and Belegging-Maatschappij "Far-East" v ECB
Economic policy
The General Court confirms the withdrawal of AAB Bank’s authorisation as a credit institution

thyssenkrupp v Commission
Competition
The General Court upholds the Commission’s decision prohibiting the proposed merger between thyssenkrupp and Tata Steel

Porr Bau
Environment and consumers
According to Advocate General Medina, uncontaminated top-quality excavated soil supplied by a construction undertaking to local farmers for improving the cultivation land may not constitute ‘waste’ under EU law

Commission v Slovakia (Protection du Grand tétras)
Environment and consumers
Protection of the capercaillie (Tetrao urogallus) and the Natura 2000 areas hosting the habitat of that wild bird: the Court finds that Slovakia has infringed the Habitats Directive and the Birds Directive

Volvo and DAF Trucks
Competition
The Court specifies the temporal scope of the rules governing the limitation period for bringing an action for damages for infringements of competition law and of the rules governing the quantification of the harm resulting from such infringements and the rebuttable presumption relating to the existence of harm resulting from a cartel