European Court of Justice (News)

Commission v Ireland (Parc éolien de Derrybrien)
Environment and consumers
Ireland is ordered to pay pecuniary penalties for failing to comply with an earlier judgment of the Court which required, in particular, that an environmental assessment be carried out in respect of a wind farm

Haqbin
Area of Freedom, Security and Justice
An applicant for international protection guilty of serious breaches of the rules of the accommodation centre in which he or she is hosted or of seriously violent behaviour cannot be sanctioned by a withdrawal of material reception conditions relating to housing, food or clothing

Organisation juive européenne and Vignoble Psagot
Approximation of laws
Foodstuffs originating in the territories occupied by the State of Israel must bear the indication of their territory of origin, accompanied, where those foodstuffs come from an Israeli settlement within that territory, by the indication of that provenance

Junqueras Vies
Privileges and immunities
According to Advocate General Szpunar, MEPs’ Parliamentary mandate is acquired solely from the electorate and this cannot be conditional on the completion of any subsequent formality

Kanyeba
Transport
When a passenger boards a train without a ticket, he concludes a contract with the carrier

Flausch and Others
Environment and consumers
When the public is not put in a position to actually participate in the environmental impact assessment for a project, a time limit for bringing proceedings against the decision granting consent for the project cannot be relied on against the public

ADDE v Parliament
Law governing the institutions
The European Parliament’s decision on the financing of the ADDE party in 2015 is annulled for lack of impartiality

The Court of Justice of the European Union makes procedural and doctrinal documents freely accessible on its website

Commission v Poland (Indépendance des juridictions de droit commun)
Principles of Community law
Polish rules relating to the retirement age of judges and public prosecutors, adopted in July 2017, are contrary to EU law

Commission v Poland (Mécanisme temporaire de relocalisation de demandeurs de protection internationale)
Area of Freedom, Security and Justice
Advocate General Sharpston: the Court should rule that, by refusing to comply with the provisional and time-limited mechanism for the mandatory relocation of applicants for international protection, Poland, Hungary and the Czech Republic have failed to fulfil their obligations under EU law

Rubik's Brand v EUIPO - Simba Toys (Forme d’un cube avec des faces ayant une structure en grille)
Intellectual and industrial property
The General Court confirms the cancellation of the EU trade mark consisting of the shape of the ‘Rubik’s Cube’

Commission v France (Dépassement des valeurs limites pour le dioxyde d’azote)
Environment and consumers
France has systematically and persistently exceeded the annual limit value for nitrogen dioxide since 1 January 2010

Entry into office of two new Members of the Court of Justice

Dziubak
Approximation of laws
In loan contracts concluded in Poland and indexed to a foreign currency, unfair terms relating to the difference in exchange rates cannot be replaced by general provisions of Polish civil law

Glawischnig-Piesczek
Freedom of establishment
EU law does not preclude a host provider such as Facebook from being ordered to remove identical and, in certain circumstances, equivalent comments previously declared to be illegal

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

Blaise and Others
Agriculture and fisheries
There are no grounds to question the validity of the regulation on the placing of plant protection products on the market

Planet49
PDON
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Mr Savvas Papasavvas is elected Vice-President of the General Court of the European Union

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