European Court of Justice (News)

Hamoudi v Frontex
Law governing the institutions
The action for damages against Frontex brought by a Syrian national, allegedly sent back out to sea from Greece in the direction of Turkey, is dismissed

AP Assistenzprofis
The hiring of a personal assistant to help a disabled person in everyday life may be limited to persons within the same age range

SCHUFA Holding (Scoring)
Principles of Community law
The General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) opposes two data processing practices by credit information agencies

NORDIC INFO
Citizenship of the Union
COVID-19: the Court validates certain travel bans and testing and quarantine obligations during the health crisis

Nacionalinis visuomenės sveikatos centras
Only a wrongful infringement of the General Data Protection Regulation may result in an administrative fine being imposed

Luxembourg v Commission
State aid
The European Commission’s review of the tax rulings granted by Luxembourg to the Engie group infringed EU law

Ministero dell’Interno
Area of Freedom, Security and Justice
Asylum procedures: the obligation to provide the common information leaflet and to conduct a personal interview concerns all Member States; the risk of indirect refoulement is not, as a rule, examined by the second Member State seised

Commune d'Ans
Wearing of religious symbols in the workplace: a public administration may decide to prohibit all of its employees from wearing such signs

Neves 77 Solutions
External relations
Advocate General Ćapeta: The Court does not have jurisdiction to interpret general provisions of an EU Common Foreign and Security Policy measure merely in order to clarify their meaning

KS and KD v Conseil e. a.
External relations
Advocate General Ćapeta: Individuals may bring an action for damages against the EU before the EU Courts based on alleged breaches of fundamental rights by EU Common Foreign and Security Policy measures

Weingut A
Agriculture and fisheries
Winemaking and wine labelling: A wine-grower may indicate its own wine-growing holding even if pressing takes place on the premises of another wine-grower

Provident Polska
Environment and consumers
Consumer protection: a requirement that a consumer pay excessive non-interest credit costs can constitute an unfair term

Ryanair v Commission
State aid
State aid during the Covid-19 pandemic: the Court definitively dismisses the appeals brought by Ryanair concerning the support measures put in place by France and Sweden in the spring of 2020

Del Valle Ruíz and Others v SRB
Economic policy
Resolution of Banco Popular: affected shareholders and creditors were not entitled to compensation from the Single Resolution Fund

Ligue des droits humains
Processing of personal data: decisions taken by a supervisory authority in the context of the indirect exercise of the rights of the data subject are legally binding

NC
A change in the holder of a Spanish notarial practice may constitute a transfer of an undertaking

Bundesamt für Fremdenwesen und Asyl and Others
Area of Freedom, Security and Justice
According to Advocate General Jean Richard de la Tour, the discriminatory measures adopted against Afghan women by the Taliban regime amount, on account of their cumulative effect, to persecution

Commission v Ireland and Others
State aid
According to Advocate General Pitruzzella, the judgment of the General Court on ‘tax rulings’ adopted by Ireland in relation to Apple should be set aside

Commission v Sweden
Approximation of laws
Failure of a Member State to fulfil obligations: Sweden is ordered to pay € 8 500 000 for late transposition of the amended Firearms Directive

Všeobecná úverová banka
Unfair term in a consumer credit contract secured by the family home: the court must assess the proportionality between the seller or supplier’s power to demand the whole of the loan and the seriousness of the consumer’s non-compliance