European Court of Justice (News)

Fiat Chrysler Finance Europe v Commission, Ireland v Commission e.a
State aid
Tax ruling: Advocate General Priit Pikamäe proposes that the Court allow the appeal brought by Ireland and annul the Commission’s decision declaring aid which Luxembourg granted to Fiat as being incompatible with the internal market

Openbaar Ministerie (Tribunal établi par la loi dans l’État membre d’émission)
DFON
Refus d’exécution d’un mandat d’arrêt européen : l’avocat général Rantos précise les critères permettant à une autorité judiciaire d’exécution d’apprécier le risque éventuel d’ingérence du pouvoir exécutif dans les affaires concernant les personnes recherchées

AB and Others (Révocation d’une amnistie)
Area of Freedom, Security and Justice
The principle ne bis in idem does not preclude the issue of a European arrest warrant against persons accused of abducting the son of a former Slovak President

Stolichna obshtina, rayon "Pancharevo"
Citizenship of the Union
Child, being a minor and a Union citizen, whose birth certificate was drawn up by the host Member State and designates as parents two persons of the same sex: the Member State of which the child is a national is obliged to issue an identity card or a passport to that child without requiring a birth certificate to be drawn up beforehand by its national authorities

Servizio Elettrico Nazionale and Others
Competition
Advocate General Rantos sets out the criteria for classifying an exclusionary practice as an abuse of a dominant position

Solemn undertaking before the Court of Justice of the European Union given by two new Members of the European Court of Auditors

Dyson and Others v Commission
Law governing the institutions
Energy consumption of cyclonic bagless vacuum cleaners: the General Court dismisses Dyson Ltd’s claim for compensation for alleged loss

Hungary v Parliament and Council, Poland v Parliament and Council
Principles of Community law
AG Campos Sánchez-Bordona: the actions brought by Hungary and Poland against the regime of conditionality for the protection of the Union budget in the event of breaches of the principles of the rule of law should be dismissed

Facebook Ireland
Principles of Community law
According to Advocate General Richard de la Tour, the Member States may allow consumer protection associations to bring representative actions against infringements of the protection of personal data

Roos and Others v Parliament
SANT
Le président du Tribunal ne suspend pas la décision du Parlement européen conditionnant l’accès à ses bâtiments à la présentation d’un certificat Covid-19 numérique de l’UE

LR Ģenerālprokuratūra
Privileges and immunities
Where a criminal authority finds that the conduct investigated by it of a governor of a central bank of a Member State was manifestly not committed by that governor in his or her official capacity, proceedings against him or her may be continued since immunity from legal proceedings does not apply

Puigdemont i Casamajó and Others v Parliament
Law governing the institutions
The Vice-President of the General Court of the European Union refuses the new request for the suspension of waiver of the parliamentary immunity of Mr Carles Puigdemont i Casamajó, Mr Antoni Comín i Oliveres and Ms Clara Ponsatí i Obiols

IB (Résidence habituelle d’un époux - Divorce)
Area of Freedom, Security and Justice
Jurisdiction to hear a divorce application: the Court clarifies the meaning and scope of the concept of the « habitual residence » of a spouse

StWL Städtische Werke Lauf a.d. Pegnitz
Approximation of laws
‘Inbox advertising’: the display in the electronic inbox of advertising messages in a form similar to that of a real email constitutes use of electronic mail for the purposes of direct marketing within the meaning of Directive 2002/58

Delfarma
Free movement of goods
EU law precludes national legislation under which a parallel import licence of a medicinal product is to expire automatically after one year from the expiry of the marketing authorisation for the reference medicinal product, without carrying out an examination whether there is any risk to the health and life of humans

État luxembourgeois (Informations sur un groupe de contribuables)
Approximation of laws
Coopération administrative dans le domaine fiscal : une demande d’informations peut concerner un groupe de personnes identifiables, mais non nominativement et individuellement identifiées

Council v Hamas
External relations
The Court of Justice upholds the acts of the Council maintaining Hamas on the European list of terrorist organisations

IS (Illégalité de l’ordonnance de renvoi)
Area of Freedom, Security and Justice
EU law precludes a national supreme court, following an appeal in the interests of the law brought by the Prosecutor General, from declaring a request for a preliminary ruling submitted by a lower court unlawful on the ground that the questions referred are not relevant and necessary for the resolution of the dispute in the main proceedings

SpaceNet ,Telecom Deutschland,Commissioner of the Garda Síochána
Approximation of laws
Advocate General Campos Sánchez-Bordona reiterates that the general and indiscriminate retention of traffic and location data relating to electronic communications is permitted only in the event of a serious threat to national security

Governor of Cloverhill Prison and Others
External relations
The provisions in the Withdrawal Agreement concerning the European arrest warrant regime with respect to the United Kingdom and the provision in the Trade and Cooperation Agreement between the EU and the United Kingdom concerning the new surrender mechanism are binding on Ireland