European Court of Justice (News)

Kuhn
Area of Freedom, Security and Justice
The ‘Brussels Ia’ Regulation is not applicable in determining which Member State’s courts have jurisdiction to rule on claims brought against the Greek State by an individual holding Greek sovereign bonds following their forced exchange in 2012

Verbraucherzentrale Baden-Württemberg
Transport
Air carriers who do not express air fares for intra-Community flights in euros are required to indicate those fares in a local currency objectively linked to the service offered

Deutsche Telekom v Commission
State aid
The General Court upholds the decisions of the European Commission classifying the Spanish tax scheme for the amortisation of ‘financial’ goodwill as State aid incompatible with the internal market

Memoria and Dall'Antonia
Freedom of establishment
The Italian legislation prohibiting private companies from performing an activity of safekeeping of cinerary urns is contrary to EU law

Milivojević
Area of Freedom, Security and Justice
Advocate General Tanchev proposes that the Court should rule that a national law that allows loan contracts concluded with foreign lenders who were not authorised to provide credit services in that country to be retroactively annulled is contrary to EU law when the same law does not apply to Croatian lenders

Crédit agricole and Crédit agricole Corporate and Investment Bank v Commission
Competition
The President of the General Court rejects the application of Crédit agricole and JPMorgan Chase to prevent publication of the Commission decision regarding the EURIBOR cartel

Devin v EUIPO - Haskovo (DEVIN)
Intellectual and industrial property
DEVIN, the name of a Bulgarian town, can be registered as an EU trade mark for mineral water

Funke Medien NRW
Freedom of establishment
According to Advocate General Szpunar, a simple military report cannot enjoy copyright protection

Sciotto
SOPO
Workers in the sector of activity of operatic and orchestral foundations cannot be excluded from protection against the abuse of fixed-term employment contracts

Commission v Poland
Poland must immediately suspend the application of the provisions of national legislation relating to the lowering of the retirement age for Supreme Court judges

Bastei Lübbe
Freedom of establishment
The owner of an internet connection used for copyright infringements through file-sharing cannot be exonerated from liability simply by naming a family member who might have had access to that connection

‘e-Curia’ becomes the only means of exchange of legal documents between parties’ representatives and the General Court with effect from 1 December 2018

Arib and Others
Area of Freedom, Security and Justice
Advocate General Szpunar proposes that the Court should rule that the ‘Returns Directive’ must be applied to third-country national where internal border controls have been reinstated

Appointment of the First Advocate General of the Court of Justice

Election of the Presidents of the Chambers of three Judges of the Court of Justice

Election of the Presidents of the Chambers of five Judges of the Court of Justice

Ms Rosario Silva de Lapuerta is elected Vice-President of the Court of Justice of the European Union

Mr Koen Lenaerts is re-elected President of the Court of Justice of the European Union

Partial renewal of the membership of and entry into office of six new Members of the Court of Justice

Weiss and Others
Economic policy
Advocate General Wathelet proposes that the Court of Justice should rule that the decision of the ECB establishing a programme for the purchase of government bonds on secondary markets is valid