European Court of Justice (News)

Meta Platforms Ireland v Commission
Competition
Competition: The action brought by Meta Platforms Ireland (Facebook group) against a Commission request seeking disclosure of documents identified by means of search terms is dismissed

EVH v Commission
Competition
The action brought by the German electricity producer EVH against the approval by the Commission of the acquisition of E.ON assets by RWE is dismissed

enercity v Commission
Competition
The action brought by the German municipal authority enercity against the approval by the Commission of the acquisition of generation assets of E.ON by RWE is inadmissible

BK and ZhP (Suspension partielle de la procédure au principal)
Law governing the institutions
A request for a preliminary ruling made to the Court of Justice does not prevent the referring court from continuing the main proceedings in part

DC (Rétractation après l’exécution du contrat)
Approximation of laws
Failure to provide information on the right of withdrawal: a consumer is exempt from any payment obligation if he or she withdraws from a service contract concluded off-premises which has already been performed

TAP Portugal (Décès du copilote)
Transport

L’annulation d’un vol en raison du décès inopiné du copilote n’exonère pas la compagnie aérienne de son obligation d’indemniser les passagers

Bezirkshauptmannschaft Lilienfeld
Transport
A road transport undertaking cannot discharge its responsibility for compliance with the driving times and rest periods of drivers by transferring it to a third person.

Inspecţia Judiciară
External relations
Rule of law: the body in charge of disciplinary proceedings against judges must be independent and impartial

Ryanair v Commission (Lufthansa ; COVID-19)
State aid
The General Court annuls the decision of the Commission to approve the recapitalisation of Lufthansa by Germany, amounting to €6 billion euros, in the context of the COVID-19 pandemic

Commune d'Ans
According to Advocate General Collins, a public body may, under certain conditions, prohibit its employees from wearing any visible sign of political, religious or philosophical belief in their workplace

Luxembourg v Commission
State aid
Tax rulings: Advocate General Kokott considers that the Commission erred in finding that Luxembourg had granted unlawful State aid to the Engie group in the form of tax advantages

Österreichische Post (Préjudice moral lié au traitement de données personnelles)
Mere infringement of the GDPR does not give rise to a right to compensation

Österreichische Datenschutzbehörde
Principles of Community law
GDPR: the right to obtain a ‘copy’ of personal data means that the data subject must be given a faithful and intelligible reproduction of all those data

ECB v Crédit lyonnais
Economic policy
The Court confirms the ECB's refusal to exclude for the purposes of the calculation of the leverage ratio of Crédit lyonnais 34% of its exposures to the Caisse des dépôts et consignations

Agenția Națională de Integritate
Fight against corruption: EU law does not preclude a person from being prohibited from all elective public office for three years if he or she has infringed the rules relating to conflicts of interest by holding such office

Mr Vittorio Di Bucci appointed Registrar of the General Court by the Plenary Conference

Natsionalna agentsia za prihodite
Principles of Community law
Unlawful access to personal data by third parties leads to liability for presumed fault on the part of the controller and may give rise to non-material damage for which compensation can be awarded

OHB System v Commission
Public procurement
Galileo Programme: OHB System’s action against award of transition satellite contract to Thales Alenia Space Italia and Airbus Defence & Space dismissed

Commission v Poland () and vie privée des juges)
Principles of Community law
Rule of law: the amount of the daily penalty payment which Poland is required to pay is reduced from one million to 500 000 euros

Commission v Poland () and vie privée des juges)
Principles of Community law
État de droit : le montant de l’astreinte journalière imposée à la Pologne est réduit d’un million à 500 000 euros