European Court of Justice (News)

Bundesrepublik Deutschland
Area of Freedom, Security and Justice
Une demande de protection internationale introduite par un mineur ne peut être rejetée comme irrecevable au motif que ses parents se sont déjà vu accorder une telle protection dans un autre État membre

Familienkasse Niedersachsen-Bremen
Principles of Community law
Un citoyen de l’Union ayant établi sa résidence habituelle dans un État membre d’accueil ne peut pas être exclu du bénéfice d’allocations familiales pendant les trois premiers mois de son séjour au motif qu’il ne perçoit pas de revenus tirés d’une activité dans cet État membre

Vyriausioji tarnybinės etikos komisija
Principles of Community law
La législation lituanienne prévoyant la divulgation en ligne d’une partie des données contenues dans la déclaration d’intérêts privés des directeurs d’établissements percevant des fonds publics est contraire au droit de l’Union

RT France v Council
External relations
The Grand Chamber of the General Court dismisses RT France’s application for annulment of acts of the Council, adopted following the outbreak of the war in Ukraine, temporarily prohibiting that organisation from broadcasting content

Puig Gordi and Others
Area of Freedom, Security and Justice
Selon l’avocat général Richard de la Tour, une autorité judiciaire ne peut pas refuser d’exécuter un mandat d’arrêt européen en se fondant sur le risque de violation du droit à un procès équitable de la personne réclamée si l’existence de défaillances systémiques ou généralisées touchant le système judiciaire de l’État membre d’émission n’est pas démontrée

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

Visite à la Cour de justice de l'Union européenne de S. Exc. Mme Katerina Sakellaropoulou, présidente de la République Hellénique

Ligue des droits humains
PDON
The Court considers that respect for fundamental rights requires that the powers provided for by the PNR Directive be limited to what is strictly necessary

London Steam-Ship Owners’ Mutual Insurance Association
Area of Freedom, Security and Justice
The Prestige sinking: The arbitration proceedings initiated in the United Kingdom cannot block the recognition of the Spanish judgment ordering the insurer to pay compensation for the damage caused by the oil spill

Servizio Elettrico Nazionale and Others
Competition
The Court of Justice sets out the criteria for defining a dominant position in connection with exclusionary practices on the basis of anticompetitive effects of the conduct of an incumbent operator in the context of the liberalisation of the electricity market

W. J. (Changement de résidence habituelle du créancier d’aliments)
Area of Freedom, Security and Justice
For the purpose of identifying the law applicable to a maintenance payment, the habitual residence of its recipient is that of the place where the habitual centre of his or her life is located, particularly where it concerns a young child

Luso Temp
SOPO
Compensation in respect of days of paid annual leave not taken and the corresponding holiday bonus pay granted to temporary agency workers must be at least equal to that which would be granted to them if they had been recruited directly by the user undertaking to occupy the same job for the same period of time

Czech Republic v Commission
Law governing the institutions
The General Court upholds in part the Czech Republic’s action based on the unjust enrichment of the Commission in so far as it concerns the repayment of an amount equivalent to approximately € 726 000 that that Member State had to pay to that institution in the context of the recovery of anti-dumping duties

Fininvest and Berlusconi v ECB
Economic policy
The General Court upholds the decision by which the ECB refused to authorise Silvo Berlusconi’s acquisition of a qualifying holding in Banca Mediolanum